PRISONERS OF WAR.
From Gallipoli to Korea. Pp. [viii]+600(last blank), text illustrations, glossary, further reading list, index; cr. 4to; dust wrapper; Viking Press, Melbourne, 1992. First edition. *Signed by the author on half-title page. More
Prisoners-of-War & Escapes
ONE MAN'S WAR.
Pp. xvi+288, frontispiece, text illustrations (many full page) and map, explanatory notes, glossary, index of persons mentioned; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Sun Books, Sydney, 1983. Second edition, reprinted. *First published by Alternative Publishing Co-op in 1980. More
THE NIGHT OF A THOUSAND SUICIDES.
The Japanese Outbreak at Cowra. Edited by Ray Cowan and translated from the Japanese by his wife. Pp. [xii]+126(last blank), 4 plates; price-clipped dust wrapper, worn, edges a trifle split; endpapers lightly foxed; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1970. First Australian edition. *Novel, first published in Japan in 1967, based on..... More
THE GREAT RAID ON CABANATUAN.
Rescuing the doomed ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor. Pp. xii+258, occasional text maps, notes and sources, index; dust wrapper, water mark on reverse, edges a little worn, flaps slightly creased; bookseller's stamp on upper pastedown, small inscription (25) on lower free endpaper; John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1994. More
THE LONGEST TUNNEL.
The true story of the Great Escape. Pp. x+290(last blank), 16 plates, index; med. 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, rubbed, edges a trifle worn; ownership inscription on the upper free endpaper; Guild Publishing, London, 1990. More
BEHIND THE WIRE.
The Clinical War Diary of Major Burnett Clarke AAMC. Compiled in Changi Prisoner-of-War Camp 1944-1945. Pp. xxx+104(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 8 full page illustrations (2 in colour), head & tail pieces and marginal decorations, index; pictorial laminated boards; Amphion Press, Brisbane, 1989. First edition. *Major Burnett Clarke served as..... More
A LIFE FOR EVERY SLEEPER.
A pictorial record of the Burma-Thailand railway. Pp. xxii+114, text illustrations and maps; sq. med. 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; edges of leaves lightly browned; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1988. Third impression. More
BARBED WIRE AND BAMBOO.
Australian POWs in Europe, North Africa, Singapore, Thailand and Japan. Pp. xxiv+160(last blank), 2 full page illustrations, 4 maps; dust wrapper; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1992. First edition. More
THE ALBERT COATES STORY.
The Will that Found the Way. Pp. xviii+190, 16 plates, full page map, glossary, bibliography, index; dust wrapper, rubbed and edges a trifle worn and split; Hyland House, Melbourne, 1977. First edition. *Sir Albert Coates served with the first AIF at the Gallipoli landing and was one of the last..... More
CRUEL BRITANNIA.
Britannia waives the rules. Pp. xii+124(last blank), text illustrations and maps; printed glazed papered boards; dust wrapper;the authors, Sydney, n.d. *A different view of the Malayan Campaign and the defence of Singapore. More
OF LOVE AND WAR.
The letters and diaries of Captain Adrian Curlewis and his family 1939-1945. Pp. 280, chapter head-pieces, illustrations (including 14 full page), 4 maps (3 full page), index; small cr. 4to; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; Lansdowne Press, Sydney, 1982. First edition. *Adrian Curlewis was the son of Australian children's..... More
ESCAPE & EVASION.
POW Breakouts in World War II. Pp. 192, 8 plates, text maps, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; pictorial laminated boards; dust wrapper; Rigel, London, 1997. First edition. More
MEDICOS AND MEMORIES.
Further recollections of the 2/10th Field Regiment R.A.A. Pp. xviii+130(last blank), text illustrations, 2 full page maps, rolls, appendices, index; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; 2/10th Field Regiment Association, Birkdale, Qld, 2010. *First published in 2000. An extension of the history of the 2/10th Field Regiment; addresses the medical issues experienced..... More
THE DODGER.
The Extraordinary Story of Churchill's Cousin and the Great Escape. Pp. 336, 16 plates, appendices, notes, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; maroon boards, spine lettered in silver, top fore-corner of lower board and lower edges of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper; fore-edge of a few leaves slightly bruised; Mainstream Publishing..... More
WEARY.
The Life of Sir Edward Dunlop. Pp.[x]+710(last blank), 48 plates, text illustrations and maps, glossary, endnotes, select bibliography, index; roy. 8vo; dust wrapper; edges of leaves faintly soiled; The Viking Press, Melbourne, 1994. Third printing. *Inscribed and signed by the author on title page. More
WEARY.
King of the River. Pp. xvi+432(last colophon), text illustrations and maps (some full page), notes & sources, selected reading, index; small cr. 4to; faint damp stain to upper board near head of spine; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased; The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2009. Illustrated Gift Edition, first thus. *Biography..... More
THE EMPEROR'S GUEST 1942-1945.
Pp. xviii+318; 4 plates, 3 maps, appendices; dust wrapper, backstrip a little sunned; small ownership stamp on upper free endpaper; Leo Cooper, London, 1972. *First published by Hutchinson, London, 1971. Recollections of a WWII POW of the Japanese. More
P.O.W.
Pp. 240, 16 plates, select bibliography, index; lower fore-corners of boards bumped; dust wrapper, a little worn, edges a trifle split, short closed tear from bottom edge of front panel; outer leaves foxed; David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1981. First edition. *Studies prisoners-of-war from the days of the One Hundred..... More
ESCAPE FROM THE SWASTIKA.
Pp. 120, black & white and coloured text illustrations including maps (some full and double page), illustrated endpapers; cr. 4to; dust wrapper; Marshall Cavendish, London, 1975. First edition. More
THE BURMA-THAILAND RAILWAY OF DEATH.
Pp. [viii]+295, text illustrations, bibliography, appendices; roy. 8vo; lower edges of boards slightly shelf worn; dust wrapper, lightly soiled; Graphic Books, Melbourne, 1981. First edition. More
THE BRAVE JAPANESE.
Pp. 280, 16 plates; demy 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; black boards, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards lightly marked, a few small chips inside edge of boards; dust wrapper, lightly worn, backstrip and portion of back panel faded, lightly soiled, vertical crease in back flap; leaves..... More
BRIDGE WITH THREE MEN: Across China to the Western Heaven in 1942.
Foreword by Sir John Mills. Pp. 226(last blank), 8 plates, text figures, 1 full page plus endpaper map; dust wrapper; Jonathan Cape, London, 1986. First edition. *Following the fall of Hong Kong to the Japanese in 1941, the author became a POW. He later escaped with a medic and a...... More
SLAVES OF THE SAMURAI.
An Australian Odyssey, which gives an account of the Life and Thoughts of a slave of the Samurai, during his three years and seven months as a Prisoner of War in the hands of the Japanese. Pp. xx+296, frontispiece portrait, 29 plates, text plus coloured endpaper maps; fore-edges of boards..... More