Kokoda: Teen edition

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Kokoda: Teen edition
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Peter FitzSimons
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 128
Category/GenreProse - non-fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780734417435
ClassificationsDewey:940.5426
Audience
Teenage / Young Adult
Illustrations 3x8pp 1c

Publishing Details

Publisher Hachette Australia
Imprint Lothian Children's Books
Publication Date 25 October 2016
Publication Country Australia

Description

Kokoda, 1942. In the muddy, treacherous mountains of Papua New Guinea, a small force of young Australian soldiers - some of them still teenagers - are up against highly trained, experienced Japanese troops. Many believed that the all-conquering Imperial Japanese Army was unstoppable. But this is the story of how these brave young Aussies faced up to some of the world's best soldiers on a narrow, precarious jungle track - and defeated them. Praise for the original edition: 'an engrossing narrative, beautifully controlled by a master storyteller' THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

Author Biography

Peter FitzSimons is Australia's bestselling non-fiction writer, and for the past 30 years has also been a journalist and columnist with the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD and the SUN HERALD. He is the author of a number of highly successful books, including KOKODA, NED KELLY and GALLIPOLI, as well as biographies of such notable Australians as Sir Douglas Mawson, Nancy Wake and Nick Farr-Jones. His passion is to tell Australian stories, our own stories: of great men and women, of stirring events in our history. Peter grew up on a farm north of Sydney, went to boarding school in Sydney and attended Sydney University. An ex-Wallaby, he also lived for several years in rural France and Italy, playing Rugby for regional clubs. He lives in Sydney with his wife, Lisa Wilkinson - journalist, magazine editor and currently co-presenter of TODAY on Channel 9 - and their three children.

Reviews

an engrossing narrative, beautifully controlled by a master storyteller - Sydney Morning Herald This reads like fiction, but it is all fact - Lieutenant Allan Kanga Moore, 39th Battalion