By Michael Veitch
This excellent book has been a long time coming. Your reviewer, whose father fought in the battle, thought that given the lack of good books on the subject, he may have had to write one himself. With the publication of Turning Point, he has thankfully been relieved of that duty.
By Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons is an Australian “celebrity” journalist and TV personality who affects a red bandana. He was also, apparently, once a champion rugby player. He has, by producing histories on a production line basis, become a prolific creator of “novelised” Australian history.
By Peter Fitzsimons
If you like reading “novelised” history, you will probably enjoy this book. Your reviewer, however, cannot see the point of embellishing real history. He finds it hard to come to grips with the fact that Peter Fitzsimons is described by his publisher as “Australia’s bestselling non-fiction writer”, when, as the author himself writes, he constructs his work “in the manner of a novel”. Your reviewer finds the expressions contradictory.