A history of the 2/17 Australian Infantry Battalion 1940-1945. Pp. xvi+464(last blank), 3 full page colour illustrations, pictorial title page printed in green & black, numerous text illustrations and maps, endpaper maps, appendices, including nominal roll with casualties, Honours and awards; cr. 4to; green cloth, lettered in gilt, gilt insignia..... More
A history of the 2/3rd Australian Machine Gun Battalion. Pp. xxviii+298, text illustrations, 12 text maps, facsimile letter as endpapers, appendices, including Honours and awards list, Honour roll, nominal roll, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, edges lightly browned, lightly foxed on reverse; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso..... More
A story of the 2/3 Aust. Inf. Battalion A.I.F. Pp. [xiv]+450, text illustrations and maps plus endpaper maps, battle honours with coloured illustration of the Battalion Colours, Honour roll, nominal roll; post 8vo; upper board slightly marked; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and foxed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on..... More
With a Foreword by Colonel R. J. L. Ogilby. Compiled under the direction and supervision of the Regimental History Committee. Pp. xx+460(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 22 plates, 10 folding maps, title printed in blue, glossary, appendices, index; navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, lightly browned and..... More
'U' Company, 15th Battalion 1941-1942. Pp. xxii+362(last blank), text illustrations and maps (some full page), chapter and general appendices, glossary, sources, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Big Sky Publishing, Sydney, 2010. First edition. *The Australian Army History Collection. More
5 June to 3 September 1944. Pp. [iii]+32+xxv(appendices), 4 coloured fold-out maps at end, appendices, index to appendices; impl 8vo; printed stiff paper wrappers; Military Library Research Service, London, 2006. *Facsimile of the original report on the 6 Airborne Division's activities from D-day to September 3rd 1944. More
![Item #159274 THE TURN OF THE TIDE, 1939-1943. [and] TRIUMPH IN THE WEST, 1943-1946. Field Marshal...](/pictures/thumb/159274.jpg?v=1674620554)
A study based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. Together two volumes, totally more than 1,400 pages, 2 frontispieces, text and endpaper maps, indices; demy 8vo; black [and red]boards, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, some fore-corners lightly bruised; dust wrappers, a little worn..... More
The Life of Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis. Pp. xiv+346, 16 plates, text illustration, text maps (2 full page) endpaper map, references, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; top edges red; price-clipped dust wrapper, browned and rubbed, edges quite worn, with several chips and splits, some tape repaired on reverse; bookplate..... More
In Combat with the 505th and 508th Parachute Infantry Regiments, 82nd Airborne Division in World War II. Pp. 288, text illustrations and maps, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Casemate, Philadelphia, 2010. First edition. More
Volume 4: Supplement to Volumes 1, 2 and 3. With an Introduction by General Douglas MacArthur, United States Army. Part I: The Netherlands and British East Indies and the Philippine Islands. Part II: The Mandated Territory of New Guinea, Papua, the British Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides and Micronesia. Part..... More
Major John Geoffrey Appleyard. Being the Story of "Apple" of the Commandos and Special Air Service Regiment. Pp. [vi]+192(last blank), frontispiece and 16 plates; demy 8vo; blue cloth, lettered in red, slightly worn; dust wrapper, edges worn, with occasional chips and small tears; upper free endpaper a trifle soiled; Blandford..... More
Major John Geoffrey Appleyard. Being the story of "Apple" of the Commandos and Special Service Regiment. Pp. viii+192(last blank), frontispiece and 15 plates, printed pastedowns; small demy 8vo; brown and light green printed papered boards, with the Special Air Service badge on upper board; Blandford Press, London, 2018. Fund raising..... More
Collectibles. Pp. 88, coloured pictorial title page, coloured and black & white text illustrations, summary of the Pearl Harbour Attack; demy 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Missoula, Montana, 2001. Second printing. *Price guide for Remember Pearl Harbour Collectibles loosely inserted. More
Untitled original etching by David Armfield, after an earlier Ambrose Dyson drawing of an army cook. 17.5 cm. x 13.5 cm.; numbered 2/6, and signed in pencil lquote Amb. Dyson p. D Armfield 1980' beneath the image; glazed and framed. *Dyson's drawing of an army cook was reproduced on the..... More
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 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
Pp. xii+136(last blank), index; demy 8vo; grey cloth, spine lettered in black; dust wrapper, the back panel faintly scuffed; Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2001. First edition. *'Through an examination of the remarkable diaries and letters of three extraordinary and distinctive German-Jewish intellectuals - Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Victor Klemperer..... More
Pp. x+310(last blank), tables, appendices, index; med. 8vo; navy cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, edges of boards slightly rubbed, with a couple of small bruises, spine faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges foxed; His Majesty's Stationery Office/Longmans, Green, and Co...... More
Memoir of Service of the 2/8 Australian Commando Squadron. Australia and the South-West Pacific 1942-1945. Pp. xvi+112, text illustrations and maps, appendices including rolls, bibliography, index; demy 4to; pictorial laminated boards; top edge of leaves foxed; Australian Military History Publications, Loftus, 1996. First edition. More
Auchinleck, Victor of Alamein. Pp. 272, 14 plates including maps (2 double page), select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; red art. leather, spine blocked in black and lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, verso slightly browned, backstrip sunned; edges of leaves a trifle foxed and browned; Granada, London, 1977. First edition. More
A broken run of 478 issues, including the first and last (Volume 1, No. 1, November 19, 1942 and Volume 4, No. 230, June 30, 1946), most of the issues bound (not always in numerical order) in three volumes, plus over 50 loose issues (mostly from Volume 3, 1945). Regular..... More
Broadside calendar, headed 'With the Compliments of Guinea Gold' above a photographic view of 'Moresby Harbour in Peace Time'; demy 4to; lightly creased, inscribed in ink above title 'Good Luck Mum & Dad - Love Gordon; mounted, glazed and framed; [Port Moresby], 1944. *Guinea Gold was the official newspaper of..... More
Commander-in-Chief, Australian Military Forces. Morotai, 9th September, 1945. Pictorial broadside, featuring 7 captioned photographic scenes (a long rectangular central scene surrounded by 6 smaller photographs of various personnel); 38.5 cm. x 37 cm.; five horizontal fold creases, and several holes caused by silverfish (mainly small, some affecting images and text)..... More
![Item #119915 A SHORT HISTORY OF 9 FIELD COMPANY R.A.E. [A.I.F.]. 09th Australian Field Company...](/pictures/thumb/119915.jpg?v=1674619698)
Pp. viii+160(last blank), text illustrations and maps, indices (names and general); demy 4to; laminated boards, a little scuffed and slightly creased on lower board; 9 Field Company R.A.E. [A.I.F.] Association, Loftus, NSW, 2006. First edition. More
Tales of World War II. Pp. x+206, text illustrations and full page maps; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Warrnambool Institute Press, [Warrnambool, Victoria], 1985. First edition. *The story of the men who fought in the 2nd/5th Battalion in World War Two. More