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Eureka

By: Peter FitzSimons
Narrated by: Robert Meldrum
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Summary

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: "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 both sides of the rebellion.
©2012 Peter FitzSimons (P)2012 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
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  • Categories: History
Military World War
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Where does Eureka rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Pretty much near the top of any FitzSimons book I've listened to so far

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I live within an hour of Ballarat so to hear a lot of names that still survive and feature in the region was great. Another well researched piece of history on and about the effects on early society

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