RMT: Official History of the 4th and 6th Reserve Mechanical Transport Companies, 2 NZEF [Series Title: Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45]
by Henderson, Jim
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
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About This Item
Wellington, New Zealand: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs. Fair with no dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. This copy is in fair condition only, with dampstains to both boards, to margins of endpapers, and to frontispiece. Extensive staining to rear board. Some dampstains to margins of first few leaves and frontispiece, otherwise good internally. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Lacking the dust-jacket. ; xv, [1] , 378, [1] pages + frontispiece + 67 illustrations + 6 folding colour maps + 12 in-text maps. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213 x 135mm. Contents: Foreword; The Beginning; First Desert Campaign; Greece; Crete; Escape; Towards the Frontier; Sidi Rezegh; Beyond Tobruk; To Teheran and Syria; Minqar Qaim; Alamein; Advance to Tripoli; The End in Africa; Mule Pack Company; To Maadi; To Italy; To Cassino; To Rome; To the Adriatic; Into 1945; Postscript; Appendix: First New Zealand Escape from Germany; Roll of Honour; Honours and Awards; Index. [Reference: Bagnall H659] .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20951
- Title
- RMT: Official History of the 4th and 6th Reserve Mechanical Transport Companies, 2 NZEF [Series Title: Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45]
- Author
- Henderson, Jim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs
- Place of Publication
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- World War II Military History WWII
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