Book description
Eureka Stockade - the unfinished revolution . . . In 1854, Victorian
miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at
the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is
legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson
wrote poems about it, its symbolic flag is still raised, and even the
nineteenth-century visitor Mark Twain called it: Â a strike for
liberty .Was this rebellion a fledgling nation s first attempt to
assert its independence under colonial rule? Or was it merely
rabble-rousing by unruly miners determined not to pay their taxes. In
his inimitable style, Peter FitzSimons gets into the hearts and minds of
those on the battlefield, and those behind the scenes, bringing to life
Australian legends on b 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 Tobruk,
Kokoda, Batavia and biographies of Nancy Wake Kim Beazley Nick
Farr-Jones Les Darcy, Steve Waugh and John Eales, and is Australia's
biggest-selling non-fiction author of the last ten years. Earlier this
year, 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.
