Ned kelly biography peter fitzsimons review

Not sure why I didn’t enjoy this book. I love history, and one of the eras I find most interesting is Australia in the late 1800s through World War One and into the Roaring Twenties. 

So much of our country’s heritage had it’s beginning in those rough days before Federation, including the Kelly Gang – Ned Kelly, Steve Hart, Joe Byrne and Ned’s younger brother Dan – whose exploits seemed to grip the nation until the gang’s demise at the Siege of Glenrowan in rural Victoria, and Kelly’s subsequent death by hanging, are, for better or worse, always going to be an important part of our country’s history.

This was the first Peter FitzSimons book I’ve read.

My dad’s read most of what the rugby player turned journalist has released, and I’ve got Tobruk and Kokoda on my eReader, ready to delve into later. From the way a lot of people, my old man included, rave about FitzSimons’ work, I was expecting