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The No 1 best-selling writer of Kokoda Tobruk and Nancy Awaken 'Truly the best aviation book I've ever read.wi DICK SMITH SIR CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH IS AMONG AUSTRALIA'S MOST-LOVED Characters Within an action-packed life the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier amid the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Entrance to taking to the skies against the likes of the Red Baron - for which he won the Military Cross for gallantry - before getting the best peacetime aviator of his generation. Along side Charles Ulm he was the first to overcome the Pacific by atmosphere the first to fly over the Tasman Sea the quickest to fly from England to Australia and the first aviator to circumnavigate the world by bridging the equator. With common style FitzSimons likewise tells the tale of many discoveries some produced in Australia which set the building blocks for the Wright brothers' achievement in 1903; the first flight over the Station in 1908; Philippines's Red Baron terrorising the Partners in 1917-18 before being shot down by a Foreign; Ross and Keith Smith's first flight from England to Australia in 1919; the forming of Qantas in 1921; Lindbergh's spectacular container between America and Europe in 1927; the Truly Amazing Centenary Air Race; the increasing loss of the Southern Cloud; the tale of Bert Hinkler and much much more,'If anyone guy typified the Foreign personality at its finest with all its excellent characteristics in addition to a number of its problems he was Charles Kingsford Smith.wi STANLEY BROGDEN