Author: HMSO,
Title: AMONG THOSE PRESENT.
Description: HMSO, London, 1946, 1st edn., paperback original, 96pp, half tone ills. and 3 maps in text, map at front endpapers, half tone photo pictorial rear endpapers, stapled photo pictorial wrappers, 9 x 5.5" approx., an account of the British protectorates's of the Soloman Islands and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands during WW2, with no defence against the Japanese advance the British adminstrators and some of the native islanders formed a phantom administration and guerilla force, the South Pacific Scouts, working with the US forces, the Fiji commandos, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, original staples replaced, binding reinforced, very good,

Keywords: war ww2 far east pacific guadalcanal solomons gilbert ellice islands hmso


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