Being the history of the Royal Dragoons in the campaigns of North Africa, the Middle East, Italy and North-West Europe. Preface by Colonel F. W. Wilson-Fitzgerald. Pp. xvi+160, 20 plates, 7 full page text plus endpaper maps, appendices (including Honours and awards, roll of Honour), index; small cr. 4to; red..... More
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; some light foxing, mainly to edges of leaves;..... 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; light vertical paper crease in upper pastedown..... More
The History of the 2/8th Australian Armoured Regiment 1941-44 and service with the 41, 42, 43 Australian Landing Craft Coys. 1944-46, A.I.F. [cover title]. Foreword by H.J. McIntyre. Pp. [188](last 3 blank), text illustrations and maps (some full page), rolls, glossary, coloured illustrations on verso of upper and recto of..... More
The Men and Machines of the 2/9th Australian Armoured Regimental Group in Australia and Borneo 1941-1946. Foreword by Lt.-Col. A.E. McIntyre. Pp. xvi+256, frontispiece, text and endpaper illustrations and maps, author's minibiography on recto of the lower free endpaper, appendices including rolls, notes on sources, index; cr. 4to; pictorial laminated..... More
Pp. xviii+246(last blank), text illustrations (several full page), 8 maps, tables, appendices, bibliography, index; narrow cr. 4to; tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Army History Unit, Department of Defence, Canberra, 2002. First edition. fs22 *Signed by the author on the title page. fs24 'Of the Australian Army's citizen..... More
The History of the 7th Armoured Division 1938 to 1945. With a New Introduction by General Sir John Hackett. With a Foreword by Field Marshal Sir John Harding. Pp. 312, 15 plates, text maps, appendices, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; leaves browned; Greenhill..... 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
A Social History of Britain 1945-51. Pp. viii+224(last blank), 48 plates, notes, index; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on reverse, edges a trifle rubbed; outer leaves faintly offset, a few of the plates slightly damp stained, scattered light foxing; British Broadcasting Corporation/Jonathan Cape, London, 1985. First edition. *From the library of..... More
A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. Pp. 766, frontispiece portrait, 5 maps (4 full page), index; boards slightly faded and rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the back panel slightly soiled, backstrip faded; inked gift inscription on upper..... More
Based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. Pp. 576, frontispiece portrait, 4 text maps (3 full page), plus endpaper maps, index; fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, edges..... More
Edited by John North. Pp. xiv+210, frontispiece portrait plus 32 plates, numerous full or double page maps, index; demy 8vo; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, worn and lightly browned, backstrip sunned, some silverfish damage to panels and folds, edges worn and creased with occasional small chips and..... More
as Military Commander. Pp. viii+344, 16 plates, text maps, bibliography, index; top edges purple; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges slightly worn and browned, backstrip a trifle sunned; Batsford, London, 1971. First edition. More
The Life of Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis. Pp. [ii]+xvi+346, 16 plates, text maps (2 full page), references, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; two-tone cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind; top edges red; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, edges slightly rubbed, backstrip faded; Atheneum, New York, 1973. First..... More
Classic, Rare and Unseen Photographs from the Daily Mail. Pp. 224, profusely illustrated (many full page); square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; dust wrapper; Trans Atlantic Press, London, 2010. First edition. More
The Longest War 1941-45. Pp. xx(upper free endpaper included in pagination)+686, 24 plates, text maps (some full page), appendices, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; green boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, backstrip a little sunned, edges a trifle worn; Guild Publishing, London, 1984. *First published by Dent, London, 1984. More
The experience of a single German town 1930-1935. Pp. xiv+346(last blank), text map, appendices including graphs, notes, index; two-tone cloth, upper fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; top edges black; fore-corners of boards bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, soiled, lower edge of back panel ink marked, edges worn with occasional tiny closed..... More
Volume 2: The Mandated Territory of New Guinea, Papua, the British Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides and Micronesia. [Facsimile edition]. Pp. [viii] +274, printed double column, folding map at end; tall post 4to; tape backed printed card, slightly soiled; publisher's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; [Pacific Books, Broadbeach Waters..... 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
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, 1982. Second edition, reprinted. More
The Japanese Outbreak at Cowra. Translated from the Japanese and edited by Ray Cowan. Pp. [xii]+126(last blank), 4 plates; dust wrapper, slightly rubbed, edges a trifle worn; endpapers faintly offset, with small tape mark to upper free endpaper, a little pale foxing; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1970. First Australian edition..... 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; outer leaves and edges foxed; His Majesty's Stationery Office/Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1953. First edition. History of the Second World..... More
Pp. xvi+592, 24 plates, author's note, interviews, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; edges of boards lightly faded, the spine cloth a trifle creased; dust wrapper; edges of leaves slightly soiled, lower edges shelf-soiled, name erased from head of upper free endpaper, with surface loss; Collins, London, 1990. First U.K. edition..... More