His first book, Ship of Courage, was about the Australian cruiser HMAS Perth, on which his father died.
[2] In that book, Whiting focused on the lives of the crew, rather than providing military details of the battle itself.
[3] His second book, Victims of Tyranny, gave an account of the lives of the Irish rebels, the Fitzgerald convict brothers who were sent to help open up the north of Van Diemen's Land in 1805, under the leadership of the explorer Colonel William Paterson.
It discussed the cruelty of the transportation system that the Irish rebels were subjected to and how the brothers eventually won their freedom.
[9][10] For instance, Wilson argued that Rogers' theory has been refuted by Mechthild Flury-Lemberg at the 2005 Shroud conference, but Whiting disputed that statement.