PEARSON ARTHUR

Brothers Battlers and Bastards

Brisbane, Boolarong Press. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 0646253891) Pictorial Boards, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. small gift inscription to paste down, corners lightly bumped, vii 226pp, illustrated with photos, British lad migrated to Australia aged 15, served with AIF in North Africa, Greece, Syria, New Guinea and Borneo, includes his post war life as a rouseabout. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 013154

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: Australia Second World War Memoir Aif Biography Immigrant World War 1939-1945 0646253891

BURMA STAR ASSOCIATION

Dekho! Journal of the Burma Star Association Issues 109, 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 120 + N.Z. Branch Who's Who? 1990-91

Burma Star Association. 1990, First Edition. Original Wraps, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Booklet, 7 issues plus two photocopied peices by the New Zealand branch being a Who's Who of the New Zealand Branch 1990-91 and a Newsletter #18 March 1994, the UK issues are approx 45pp each. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006018

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: Second World War Military History Burma Star Association Returned Services Veterans Association Publication Pacific War

AURORA

The Silver Phantom, H. M. S. Aurora By Her Company

London, Frederick Muller. 1946, Second Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) price clipped DW has some edge wear with chipping loss to corners and spine ends, owner inscription to fep, faint erased pencil marks to half title, 94pp + plates. Good/Good.

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Book number: 009571

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: Second World War Marine Naval Navy Royal Navy British Military History Hms Aurora

CHUTTER JAMES B.

Captivity Captive

London, Cape. 1954, reprint. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. (500 gram rate) inscription to fep, dust jacket under a plastic sleeve, a few minor spots of tape residue to endpapers, one small square of tape to dust jacket flap, 222pp, South African military chaplain captured at Tobruk and interned, memoirs of P.O.W. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 005485

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: Second World War Military History Memoirs P.O. W. South African Chaplain Prisoner of War Italy

VOORHEES MELVIN B.

Korean Tales

London, Secker. 1953, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) book has light age foxing to closed edges, unclipped dust jacket some handling soiling and light wear with short edge splits etc, 209pp, author stationed with military in Korea, short fiction as well as non-fiction on the Korean war situation. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 005360

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: Korean War Korea East Asia Military History Communism Communist Insurgency

CAMPBELL A. B.

Salute the Red Duster

London, Christopher Johnson. 1953, reprint. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. priced clipped DW with light handling wear, small name to fep, second impression, 208pp + plates, binding shows between rear final pages, still holds well. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 009271

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: Second World War Naval Military History Convoys Marchant Marine Navy Jervis Bay Graf Spee Malta

WEBSTER SMITH B.

H.M.S.Victory: Nelson's Flagship at Trafalgar

London, Blackie. 1939, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. price clipped DW has some edge wear and short edge tears etc. generally intact and complete but with age related discolouration,gift inscr to fep dated 1944, small stain at closed bottom edge, very minor, 223pp + frontis. Good/Good.

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Book number: 009972

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: Lord Nelson Trafalgar Hms Victory, H.M. S. Victory Nautical Naval History British Royal Navy

GLUBB JOHN BAGOT

A Soldier with the Arabs

London, Hodder. 1957, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. blue cloth, handling soiling to boards, tidy clean copy, dust jacket has chipping loss to head of spine losing most of first line GLUBB, the rear fold in flap has been removed, has PASHA in black ink to spine, 460pp + plates, maps, frontis, map end papers, Glubb Pasha with the Arab Legion against the Zionist Israeli Jews after the UN partition of Palestine. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 005833

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: Arab Arabia Arabian Glubb Pasha Arab Legion Military Military History British Middle East Israel Palestine Trans-Jordan Biography

FERGUSSON BERNARD

Beyond the Chindwin

London, Collins. 1962, First Thus. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Being an account of the adventures of Number Five Column of the Wingate Expedition into Burma 1943, junior edition for young readers, unclipped dust jacket some edge wear and chipping to spine ends, name to fep, name stamp to closed fore edge, 256pp + plates, minor foxing to closed edges. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 007316

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: Military World War Two Burma Burmese Campaign Wingate Expedition 1943 Junior Edition

FERGUSSON BERNARD

The Watery Maze, the Story of Combined Operations

London, Collins. 1961, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. cloth lightly rubbed to edges, top corner bumped, prize plate to fep (Naval Board Prize RNZNVR) tipped on along top edge so could be removed, 445pp + plates, map endpapers, DW unclipped with edge wear , some chipping and short edge tears, small area lifted from cover in the arch between the h in The at top of cover, The Combined naval and army landings in France North Africa and the Mediterranean, which saw the beginning of the end of the second World War, also some South East Asian actions, and the Port Said raid of 1956. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 012193

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: Militray World War Two Combined Operations Amphibious Landings Second World War World War Two D-Day

BARNZ BILLY

The Goat Hunter: Ho Chi Minh: A Kiwi Ruins His War

Christchurch, Willson Scott. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780958253574) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. The lighter side of the Vietnam war as told by New Zealand Officer Billy Barnz. It is an account of life in small town New Zealand and in the Army of the 1960s. It tells of a strange lad who defied conventional economic wisdom by enlisting in the Services in a time of full-employment. An unlikely and ineffective militarist education leads to the field of battle in the most unpopular war of the twentieth century. The Goat Hunter reveals devastating scandals of antipodean military life in the hippy age. As new copy. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010829

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: New Zealand, Military, New Zealand Army, Vietnam War, 1960s, Soldiering, Memoir, Biography, Hunting, Growing Up in New Zealand 9780958253574

PALMER G BLAKE, MAJOR

Libya and Tunisia

2 N.Z.E.F.. Original Wraps, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: S M Williams. (500 gram rate) sewn newsprint signatures glued into pictorial wrappers.91pp + 4 b&w plates. guide book issued by the education Rehabilitation Service of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Middle East in World War Two to familiarise the troops with the culture and society of the countries they were fighting in. VG with age toning of the paper. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008750

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: 2 N.Z. E.F. New Zealand Troops Middle East World War Two History Anzac S M Williams

VOYETEKHOV BORIS

The Last Days of Sevastopol

Sydney, Cassell. 1944, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. blue cloth, small format, age toning to endpapers, DW has minor surface rubbing to rear panel and short tear at foot of spine along fold.DW has been trimmed (?) at head or tail and is about 5mm too short for the boards. DW front cover very bright and tidy, price clipped. name 'whited out' on free end paper , booksellers label also. Top edge soiled. First Australian war era issue after UK. 2 pages maps ix =+ 150pp Eye witness account of NAZI victory at Sevastopol. nice copy. Translated from Russian by Parker and Genne. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 000213

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: Military Second World War Russian Nazi Sebastopol Sevastopol

DEERE BRENDON

Military Wings, Nine RNZAF Aircraft

Marton, M S Marketing. 1979, First Edition. (ISBN: 0908604009) Pictorial Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. (500 gram rate) name to first page with tippex / white out, slight wear or fade to spine, 120pp, sized paper, b&w photographs throughout, covers Canberra, Corsair, Dakota, Kittyhawk, Mosquito, Mustang, Skyhawk, Sunderland and Vampire aircraft. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010574

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: Rnzaf, Royal New Zealand Air Force, Aviation, Military Aircraft, Reference, History, New Zealand 0908604009

HARGEST JAMES BRIGADIER

Farewell Campo 12

Whitcombe and Tombs. 1946, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. first New Zealand issue blue cloth, pages age browned, 207pp + frontis, pencil name and address to endpaper, dust jacket unclipped but has some heavy chipping or splits to corners and spine ends, NZ POW in Italy after capture by Rommel, and his escape attempts etc, Brigadier Hargest was captured at Sidi Aziz and escaped from a German POW camp near Florence, being the highest ranked British officer to escape in either World War (he also served at Gallipoli, Egypt and France in the First War) He travelled via Switzerland and occupied France back to Britain, and was killed in action in 1944. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 006933

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: Anzac New Zealand World War Two Military Prisoner of War Italy Middle East