Just a note to announce the publication of my book: To Pierce the Tyrant's
Heart, the Battle for the Eureka Stockade 3 December 1854.

To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart is the epic account of the battle for the Eureka
stockade, an iconic moment in Australia's history. On a chilly dawn morning 3
December 1854 soldiers of the Crown and police of the Victorian colonial
government attacked and stormed a crudely built fortification erected by
insurgent gold miners at the Eureka lead on the Ballarat gold fields. The
fighting was intense, the carnage appalling and the political consequences of
the affair profound.

This book for the first time examines in great detail the actual military events
that unfolded during the twenty minutes of deadly fighting at Eureka. Many of
the old assumptions about what occurred at Eureka are turned on their heads
raising in their place provocative questions. Were the intentions of the Eureka
diggers as pacific as tradition insists? How was it that men supposedly poorly
armed and taken by surprise in their sleep were able to deliver sharp and well
directed fire against their attackers? How close in fact did the assaulting
infantry come to failing in their task, and why has the pivotal part in the
battle played by the police never been acknowledged? Why has the decisive
contribution made to the defence of the stockade by the Americans been all but
ignored? The author argues convincingly that Eureka was not a massacre, as it
has been portrayed. Rather it was a hard fought military engagement.
Eureka was a decisive moment in Australian history and in this book it comes
alive in a rousing and original manner.
242 pages, Hardback, full colour dust jacket, quality paper, illustrated, maps.

You can buy a signed copy of this book directly from the author by visiting
http://www.canfodmins.com/TYRANTSHEART2.html