{"product_id":"kokoda-peter-fitzsimons","title":"Kokoda - Peter Fitzsimons","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeter FitzSimons' masterful and gripping account of Australia's legendary Kokoda triumph - our most important battle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAcclaimed bestselling author Peter FitzSimons tells the Kokoda story in a gripping, moving story for all Australians: Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know just what happened - and just what our troops achieved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'for Australians, the battles in Papua New Guinea were the most important ever fought' Paul Keating\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'This reads like fiction, but it is all fact.' Lieutenant Allan 'Kanga' Moore, 39th Battalion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'It was just a series of muddy footholds in the mountainside . . . so slippery that you had to sling your rifle and leave your hands free to grab the nearest vine or branch as your feet slid from under you . . . so steep that in some places you could scale the mountain face only by using both hands and both feet . . . so muddy that at times you sloshed through a quagmire more than ankle deep and felt the cloying mud suck your feet back at every step. That was the track they were fighting for down there.' Chester Wilmot (from a despatch banned by Commander-in-Chief Sir Thomas Blamey's headquarters)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e75th Anniversary Edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nice Stack Of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42899287343304,"sku":"","price":39.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0595\/5567\/6360\/files\/Kokoda.jpg?v=1695253955","url":"https:\/\/nicestackofbooks.myshopify.com\/products\/kokoda-peter-fitzsimons","provider":"Nice Stack Of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}