Peter Fitzsimons
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Peter Fitzsimons

Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald. He is also a regular TV commentator, a former radio presenter (very successfully, with Mike Carlton on Radio 2UE) and is also a former national representative rugby union player.Peter is the author of over 20 books - including GallipoliTobruk, Kokoda, Batavia, Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age, Eureka and biographies of Nancy WakeNed Kelly, Charles Kingsford Smith, Kim Beazley‚ Nick Farr-Jones‚ Les Darcy, Steve Waugh and John Eales.Peter is Australia's biggest-selling non-fiction author of the last ten years.Peter was named a Member of the Order of Australia for service to literature as a biographer, sports journalist and commentator, and to the community through contributions to conservation, disability care, social welfare and sporting organisations.He lives with his wife, Lisa Wilkinson, and their three children in Sydney.

Books by Peter Fitzsimons

Peter Fitzsimons Articles

Ninety-Three Minutes That Changed the World: review of Monash's Masterpiece by Peter FitzSimons

News

8 May 2018

Ninety-Three Minutes That Changed the World: review of Monash's Masterpiece by Peter FitzSimons

    Military Mastermind: read a sample chapter from Monash's Masterpiece by Peter FitzSimons

    News

    8 May 2018

    Military Mastermind: read a sample chapter from Monash's Masterpiece by Peter FitzSimons

      Engrossing Escapism: read an excerpt from Peter FitzSimons' Burke and Wills

      News

      12 December 2017

      Engrossing Escapism: read an excerpt from Peter FitzSimons' Burke and Wills

        Triumph and Tragedy: Burke and Wills by Peter FitzSimons

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        11 December 2017

        Triumph and Tragedy: Burke and Wills by Peter FitzSimons