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On Service. Tasmanian Branch R.S.S.A.I.L.A. Official Journal. Vol. I, no 6.

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: [Hobart], R.S.S.A.I.L.A. (Tasmanian Branch): September,1944

Seller ID: 34491

185x122mm. 48pp. Stapled in wrappers, as issued. A very good clean copy.
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Image for Golden Jubilee of the 40th Battalion, A.I.F. 1916-1966. The Tasmanian Battalion. At Launceston, Tasmania: Friday, November 25th; Saturday, November 26th; Sunday, November 27th. Souvenir Book. [and Golden Jubilee Song Book - see description below]

Golden Jubilee of the 40th Battalion, A.I.F. 1916-1966. The Tasmanian Battalion. At Launceston, Tasmania: Friday, November 25th; Saturday, November 26th; Sunday, November 27th. Souvenir Book. [and Golden Jubilee Song Book - see description below]

By: 40th Battalion:

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Launceston, 40th Battalion Association: 1966

Seller ID: 11255

[12]pp. Stapled in wrappers. Includes itineraries for the weekend, historical and statistical summaries of the Battalion's service record, messages of support, advertisements etc. WITH: '40th Battalion Golden Jubilee Song Book. Songs - Choruses - Verses for all convivial gatherings, re-unions and social occasions.' Arranged by E.D. Pinkard, Launceston. 12pp. Stapled in wrappers. Both booklets in fine condition, although the staples have some signs of beginning to rust.
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British Gallantry Awards.

By: ABBOTT, P.E. & J.M.A. Tamplin.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Guinness Superlatives: 1971

Seller ID: 33481

Small 4to. 360pp, coloured frontis, 3 coloured plates (2 double-page), coloured medal ribbon chart, b&w illustrations. Black cloth with dustwrapper (light horizontal old tape stain on the inside, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. .
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Image for Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal 1855-1909 : being a list, with other details, of all those who received the medal before the outbreak of the First World War.

Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal 1855-1909 : being a list, with other details, of all those who received the medal before the outbreak of the First World War.

By: ABBOTT, P.E. (compiled by).

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, J.B. Hayward & Son: 1975

Seller ID: 33478

4to. xxiv, 88pp, 5 black & white photographs. Quarter bound in contrasting cloth, lettered in gilt on upper board and spine, clear acetate dustwrapper (some short tears on extremities, old tape repairs at corners; light rubbing). A scatter of tiny spots on endpapers, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 0903754096
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THE ALEXANDER MEMOIRS 1940 - 1945.

By: ALEXANDER of Tunis, Field-Marshal Earl.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Cassell: 1962

Seller ID: 16847

Edited by John North. 210pp, b&w photographs, maps. Original cloth (flecked) with dustwrapper (silverfished). Small (grass?) stain on lower corners. Interior clean and crisp. Very good to good.
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D-Day June 6, 1944 : the climactic battle of World War II.

By: AMBROSE, Stephen E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Touchstone/Simon and Schuster: 1995

Seller ID: 26371

Octavo. 655pp, illustrated in black and white. Index. Soft covers. Very good.
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The Army in Australia 1840-50: prelude to the golden years.

By: AUSTIN, M.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Canberra, AGPS (for Department of Defence): 1979

Seller ID: 21031

Small 4to. xii, 290pp, 8 colour and 4 b&w plates. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0642036306
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Sinister Twilight : the fall and rise again of Singapore.

By: BARBER, Noel.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London/Sydney, Collins: 1968

Seller ID: 30625

319pp, frontispiece map, map endpapers. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Very good.
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The Great War.

By: BARNETT, Correlli.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, Books for Pleasure: 1979

Seller ID: 26887

Quarto. 192pp, frontispiece, profusely illustrated in colour and black and white, maps, pictorial endpapers. Bibliography and Index. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine slightly faded). Very good. ISBN 0729602087
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With the Australians in Korea.

By: BARTLETT, Norman (ed).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Canberra, Australian War Memorial: 1960

Seller ID: 15294

Third edition. Small 4to. 294pp, colour frontispiece illustration, black & white photographs, maps. Cloth (a few small flecks, minor rubbing on extremities). Edges yellowed, interior clean and fresh. Owner's name on front free endpaper. A good clean copy.
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The War with Japan : a concise history.

By: BATESON, Charles.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Sydney/London, Ure Smith: 1968

Seller ID: 30614

First Australian edition. 418pp, b&w photographs, maps. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy.
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Lambert Simnel and the Battle of Stoke.

By: BENNETT, Michael.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Gloucester, Alan Sutton: 1993

Seller ID: 29755

Reprint, with corrections. Large 8vo. 158pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0750903775
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The Battle of Bosworth.

By: BENNETT, Michael.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Gloucester, Alan Sutton: 1985

Seller ID: 9734

196pp, well illustrated in b/w, maps. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Top corners of the boards a little bumped, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 086299053X
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Allies at War.

By: BERTHON, Simon.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Harper Collins: 2001

Seller ID: 31531

xiii, 345pp, black and white photographs, one colour. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine. ISBN 0007116225 ***The book of the TV series.
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The Retreat from Moscow : the memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne 1812-1813.

By: BOURGOGNE, Sergeant.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Folio Society: 1985

Seller ID: 19934

Translated by J.W. Fortescue. Introduction by Vincent Cronin. 262pp, b&w illustrations, endpaper maps. Pictorial cloth, with the slipcase (some light marks). A very good clean copy.
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Cassell's Battlefields of Britain and Ireland.

By: BROOKS, Richard.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2005

Seller ID: 32946

Small 4to. 724pp, illustrated with maps/plans. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0304363332 ***A comprehensive survey of military actions fought on British and Irish soil, from the Romans (55BC) to the Battle of Britain (1940).
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Napoleon's Campaigns in Italy 1796-1797 and 1800.

By: BURTON, Brigadier-General R.G.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1931

Seller ID: 34485

(Special Campaign Series no 15.) Small 8vo. x, 142pp, four folding maps in rear pocket, 2 maps in text. Original light brown cloth, lettered in red. Some foxing on the edges and first few leaves, otherwise a very good clean copy. Bookplate of Lt. General Sir Charles Gairdner (later Governor of WA 1951-63 and Tasmania 1963-68) on front paste-down; and the (contemporay) inscription 'Charles Gairdner 10th Royal Hussars'; as well as this owner's annotations ('points to note') at the end of most of the chapters.
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Cadogan's Crimea.

By: CALTHORPE, Somerset J. Gough, Lt, Col.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton/Editor Books: 1979

Seller ID: 27067

Illustrated by General the Hon. Sir George Cadogan K.C.B. Abridged and illustrated edition. 288pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Index. Original cloth-textured papered boards (top corners bumped), with dustwrapper (a few marks on back edge of spine, shallow crease on back cover, lower front corner a little rubbed). Head and outer margins a little yellowed. Very good. ISBN 0241102324
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Gallipoli.

By: CARLYON, Les.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, Macmillan: 2001

Seller ID: 36030

Reprint. 600pp, black & white photographs, maps. Soft covers. A very good clean copy, evidently unused. ISBN 0732911281
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Voices of War : stories from the Australians at War film archive.

By: CAULFIELD, Michael (edited by).

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, Hodder: 2006

Seller ID: 30407

xvi, 541pp, black & white photographs. Cloth-textured papered boards. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0733620507
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Nagasaki : the massacre of the innocent and unknowing.

By: COLLIE, Grace.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, Allen & Unwin: 2011

Seller ID: 34797

338pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A very good+ clean copy. ISBN 1742372899
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The Lionheart : a life of Lieutenant-General Sir Talbot Hobbs.

By: COOMBES, David.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Loftus, NSW, Australian Military History Publications: 2007

Seller ID: 24828

Published in association with the Australian Army History Unit. Large 8vo. 342pp, illustrated. Cloth with dustwrapper (spine a trifle sunned). A very good to fine clean copy. ***Inscribed by the author. ISBN 0980379628 *** An Australian commander in World War One.
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The Diggers : makers of the Australian military tradition. Lives from the Australian Dictionary of Biography, selected and condensed...

By: COULTHARD-CLARK, Chris.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Melbourne, MUP: 1993

Seller ID: 32743

Small 4to. 370pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (extremities rubbed, spotting on the inside. A few small stains on the edges, otherwise a good to very good clean copy. ISBN 0522844707
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The War Chronicles : from flintlocks to machine guns. A global reference of all the major modern conflicts.

By: CUMMINS, Joseph.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Crows Nest, NSW, Allen & Unwin: 2009

Seller ID: 32631

Thick square 4to. 431pp, well illustrated in colour and black &white. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine. ISBN 1742370314
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Alchemist of War : the life of Basil Liddell Hart.

By: DANCHEV, Alex.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1998

Seller ID: 32953

xiv, 369pp, black & white photographs and illustrations. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0297816217
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World War I. An illustrated history.

By: EVERETT, Susanne.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Sydney, Colporteur: 1980

Seller ID: 26799

Folio. 256pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Very good. ISBN 0863990061
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Tobruk.

By: FITZSIMONS, Peter.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Sydney, Harper Collins: 2006

Seller ID: 32686

First edition/issue. 8vo. xxiv, 580pp, b&w photographs, maps. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Edges yellowed, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 0732276454
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Kokoda.

By: FITZSIMONS, Peter.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sydney, Hodder: 2004

Seller ID: 36087

First edition. 490pp, illustrated in b&w, index. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0733616151
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Blood, Sweat and Tears. Australia's WWII remembered by the men and women who lived it.

By: GEDDES, Margaret.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Camberwell, Victoria, Viking/Penguin Books: 2004

Seller ID: 30665

viii, 504pp, black & white photographs. Cloth-textured papered boards (narrow areas of fading on head and tail edges) with dustwrapper. Edges yellowed, otherwise a very good copy. ISBN 0670040894 ***The first -hand accounts of more than 75 Australians.
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We Had Some Bother : tales from the infantry.

By: GILLAN, Hugh (ed).

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Sydney, Hale & Iremonger for the 2 / 3 Battalion Association: 1985

Seller ID: 33820

212pp, b&w line illustrations. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine sunned). Edges a little yellowed, otherwise a very good clean copy. Gift inscription. ISBN 0959554017 *** 'Not a book about war'; rather tales from the war portraying 'the spirit of comradeship which developed among men who served together'.
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We Had Some Bother : tales from the infantry.

By: GILLAN, Hugh (ed).

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Sydney, Hale & Iremonger for the 2 / 3 Battalion Association: 1985

Seller ID: 33907

212pp, b&w line illustrations. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine slightly sunned). A fine clean copy. ISBN 0959554017 *** 'Not a book about war'; rather tales from the war portraying 'the spirit of comradeship which developed among men who served together'.
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British Battles and Medals : fourth edition.

By: GORDON, Major L.L. : revised by Edward C. Joslin.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Spink & Son: 1971

Seller ID: 33480

Fourth edition, revised. Foreword by David F. Spink. 440pp, coloured frontis, folding coloured medal ribbon chart, b&w illustrations. Green cloth with dustwrapper. The cloth and the inside of the wrapper have a horizontal tape stain from an old covering, the wrapper now in a new protective sleeve; the edges slightly soiled, otherwise a very good clean copy. Owner's small name label on front paste-down. .
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History of the SS.

By: GRABER, G.S.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Robert Hale: 1978

Seller ID: 19040

244pp, b&w photographs. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Very good. ISBN 0709169175
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Of Storms and Rainbows : the story of the men of the 2/12th Battalion A.I.F. [1] October 1939 - March 1942. [2] March 1942 - January 1946.

By: GRAEME-EVANS, A.L.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Hobart, 2/12th Battalion Assoc.: 1989& 1991

Seller ID: 33520

Two volumes. 4to. 258 & 474pp, well illustrated, Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrappers. A very good clean set. ISBN 0646039814 ***The 2/12th was predominantly comprised of men from Tasmania and North Queensland. It saw action at (amongst other places) Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea and at Tobruk. NOTE: In Volume One a production error resulted in the names from mid-way through 'G' to mid-way through 'P' being deleted. There was an insert printed to rectify the omission (here loosely inserted) and the complete corrected list was included in the second volume.
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Of Storms and Rainbows [1] : the story of the men of the 2/12th Battalion A.I.F. Volume One: October 1939 - March 1942.

By: GRAEME-EVANS, A.L.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Hobart, 2/12th Battalion Assoc.: 1989

Seller ID: 16727

4to. 258pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Addendum to Membership List tipped to rear endpaper (a production error resulted in the names from mid-way through 'G' to mid-way through 'P' being deleted - these all appear on this addendum, and the complete list was published at the end of the second volume in the series). A very good clean copy. Owner's small name stamp on both paste-down endpapers. ISBN 0949089117 ***The 2/12th was predominantly comprised of men from Tasmania and North Queensland. It saw action at (amongst other places) Milne Bay in Papua New Guin...
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Of Storms and Rainbows [2] : the story of the men of the 2/12th Battalion A.I.F. Volume Two: March 1942 - January 1946.

By: GRAEME-EVANS, A.L.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Hobart, 2/12th Battalion Assoc.: 1991

Seller ID: 16726

4to. 474pp, well illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. Owner's small name stamp on both paste-down endpapers. ISBN 0646039822 ***The 2/12th was predominantly comprised of men from Tasmania and North Queensland. It saw action at (amongst other places) Milne Bay and Sanananda in Papua New Guinea. N.B. In Volume One a production error resulted in the names from the midway through 'G' to midway through 'P' being deleted. An insert was printed to correct this, but the complete list appears at the end of this second volume.
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Tobruk 1941 : the desert siege.

By: HALL, Timothy.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, Methuen: 1984

Seller ID: 10315

224pp, b&w photographs, maps. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0454006675
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World War I. A Photographic History.

By: HAMILTON, R.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Bath, UK, Parragon: 2008

Seller ID: 30628

Photographs by the Daily Mail. Large 4to. 256pp, profusely illustrated with black & white photographs. Pictorial papered boards with dustwrapper. Very good. ISBN 1405456167
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Flashback. Echoes from a Hard War.

By: HARAN, Peter and Robert Kearney.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Sydney, New Holland: 2003

Seller ID: 30173

237pp, [3] publisher's advertisements, black & white photographs, map. Soft covers (a little rubbing). Good to very good. ISBN 1741100003
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Nothing Over Us : the story of the 2/6th Infantry Battalion.

By: HAY, David.

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Canberra, Australian War Memorial: 1984

Seller ID: 34353

Small 4to. xii, 604pp, illustrated. Erratum slip loosely inserted. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0642994706 ***The unit was formed in October 1939 and served in the Middle East, Greece and New Guinea, It was disbanded in January 1946.
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Doomed Battalion : mateship and leadership in war and captivity. The Australian 2/40 Battalion 1940-45.

By: HENNING, Peter.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Sydney, Allen & Unwin: 1995

Seller ID: 10869

First edition. xxx, 408pp, 16pp black & white photographs and illustrations, 11 maps. Soft covers, spine slightly faded. Page edges yellowed, as usual. A very good clean copy; signed by the author. ISBN 1863737634
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The Dragon Wakes : China and the West 1793-1911.

By: HIBBERT, Christopher.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1970

Seller ID: 34674

428pp, illustrated. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy.
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Studies in War and Peace.

By: HOWARD, Michael.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, Temple Smith: 1970

Seller ID: 35788

262pp.Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0851170064 *** Fifteen of the author's essays, making fresh assessments of men and events from the Napoleonic Wars to Hitler and his generals, covering the growth of military theory from its obscure origins in the 18th century to the present day.
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Japan's War : the great Pacific conflict 1853-1952.

By: HOYT, Edwin P.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1987

Seller ID: 35102

514pp, illustrations, map. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0091681308 ***A major revisionist history; tracing the Pacific War back to its 19th century roots.
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Reminiscences of the Crimean Campaign with the 55th Regiment.

By: HUME, John R., Major-General late 55th Regiment

Price: $135.00

Publisher: London, Unwin Brothers: 1894

Seller ID: 34488

Small 8vo. xii, 190pp, frontis portrait and 27 plates (3 folding, one of these a plan of the Inkerman battlefield). Publisher's full black calf, gilt rules and spine titles, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Some foxing early and with some of the plates, contemporary owner's name writ large in blue pencil on title page, the boards a trifle bowed, otherwise in very good condition. Bookplate of Lt. General Sir Charles Gairdner (later Governor of WA 1951-63 and Tasmania 1963-68) on front paste-down.
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Canada's Black Watch : the first hundred years 1862-1962.

By: HUTCHISON, Collonel Paul P.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Montreal, The Regiment: 1962

Seller ID: 34471

8vo. 340pp, colour frontis, b&w plates, endpaper maps. Cloth with dustwrapper (edges and rear panel suffed, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. in a good-only wrapper. ***Bookplate of Sir Charles Gairdner (Governor of WA 1951-63 and Tasmania 1963-68) on front paste-down, and a lengthy inscription from the author to him 'to remind him of Canadian tenants of his home in Peppermint Grove while he was Governor of Tasmania'.
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Dunkirk: The British Evacuation, 1940.

By: JACKSON, Robert.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Rigel: 2004

Seller ID: 26382

206pp, 8 maps. Index. Pictorial papered boards with dustwrapper. Very good.
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SOLDIERS. A History of Men in Battle.

By: KEEGAN, John and Richard Holmes, with John Gau.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1985

Seller ID: 17091

Foreword by Frederick Forsyth. 4to. 288pp, well illus in colour and b&w. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Very good. ***Companion volume to the BBC series of the same name.
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ANZACS. Australians at war : a narrative history illustrated by photographs from the nation's archives.

By: MACDOUGALL, A.K.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, Currawong Press: 1994

Seller ID: 34272

Small 4to. 288pp, well illustrated. Pictorial papered boards. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0730103595 ***Boer War, both World Wars, and the SE Asian conflicts.
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Australians at war : a pictorial history.

By: MACDOUGALL, A.K.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Sydney, Currawong Press: 2004

Seller ID: 35748

Updated and revised edition. 4to. 368pp, well illustrated. Soft covers with custom fitted plastic sleeve. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 1865038652 ***Boer War, both world wars, the post-war SE Asian conflicts, and updated to include Iraq. First published as 'ANZACS: Australians at war : a narrative history illustrated by photographs...' in 1991.
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