- Title:
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The Great Gallipoli Escape
- Written by:
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Jackie French
- Read by:
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Victor Gralak
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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3
- Duration:
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3 hours 19 minutes
- Published:
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July 01 2023
- Available Date:
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July 01 2023
- Age Category:
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Children (10+)
- ISBN:
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9781460746486
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Children's Fiction; Historical Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/HarperCollins audio
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Bestselling author
Award winning author
Australian author
Longlisted ARA Historical Novel Prize 2023
Notable Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year / Younger Readers 2024
Renowned for her historical fiction titles, award-winning author Jackie French tells the story of the brilliant and famous evacuation of Gallipoli.
Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915, they know that there is more to winning a war than courage. The Gallipoli campaign has been lost.
Nipper has played cricket with the Turks in the opposing dugout, dodged rocket fire and rescued drowning, freezing men when the blizzard snow melted. He is one of the few trusted with the secret, kept from even most of the officers – how an entire army will vanish from the Peninsula over three impeccably planned nights.
Based on first-hand accounts of those extraordinary last weeks of the Gallipoli campaign, this is the fascinating 'lost story' of how 150,000 men – and their horses and equipment – were secretly moved to waiting ships without a single life lost. An unforgettable story told through the eyes of a boy who lied about his age to defend his country.
'French writes in such an enjoyable, humorous style.' (on Ming and Flo Fight for the Future)
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'This fast-paced book calls to young people to be world changers.' (on Ming and Marie Spy for Freedom)
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'I cannot recommend this book highly enough.' (on Ming and Marie Spy for Freedom)
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