Search Results: Military-ww2 from Adelaide Booksellers

London: Hamish Hamilton. 1981. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 310 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Sydney: Macmillan. 2016. Very Good+ condition. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 463 pages. 1942 is the story of desperate bravery and criminal stupidity. Most of all, it is the story of Australians left high and dry in those fisrt few months of 1942, under the looming shadow of invasion, and the steps that an inexperienced leader, John Curtin, to to help save his country in its darkest days. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.

London: Hamish Hamilton. 1985. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. [xxviii]371pages.. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 1993. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 179 pages. Draws on the letters by Sergeant Cecil Dickson of the 2/2 Australian Pioneer Battalion and research with other surviving POWs combined with a series of photographs, taken secretly by other Australian POWs. This book looks at the lives of POW's in World War 2 and especially during the hiatus between the end of the war and the return home. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Sydney: HarperCollins. 2001. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xviii, 326pp. With an introduction and afterword by Peter Maas. . Revised Edition. Softcover.

London: John Murray. 2014. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 206 pages. One of the greatest feats of the author's life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944 [for which Fermor was larter awarded the DSO]. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 2013. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 308 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

London: John Murray. 1996. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Fine copy in Fine dustjacket. DJ protected in a purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. 340pages. Following on from his "Night of the New Moon" this book begins with the author's release from the POW camp in Java in August 1945 and him watching his fellow POW's disappear on their way to Batavia and home whilst he, as the most senior British Army Officer stayed behind at the request of the Japanese. So overnight he went from POW to oversighting the Japanese in their treatment [post war] of ex-prisoners and internees. In this process he built up a remarkable trust with the Japanese and his work laid the basis of future British policy in Java. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Like New. 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Minerva Publishing. 1940. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good condition in Good Dustjacket. The age-toned dustjacket has some tape marks and a small piece missing at base of spine - now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Front flyleaf clipped. Interior age-toned. Uncommon. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 228 pages. This book is written by a foreign journalist and political commentator and falls into three parts: First part deals with the phenomenon of Hitlerism and Hitler himself; Second part forms a discussion of the war aims and plan for organising post-war Europe; and the Third part is a postscript to war, in which the author comments on the war to date (1940) and contemplates possible outcomes. Axel Heyst was a pseudomyn for Zbigniew Grabowski, a pre-war commentator for the “Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny” in London. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

New York: Greenwillow Books. 2001. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs and maps. 146 pages. The post-war stories of 8 young people who survived the Holocaust. Based on interviews with them. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Canberra: L.F Johnson, Commonwealth Government Printer. No Date. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Very Good condition - stiff Card Covers. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Some marking to covers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 124 pages. Reprinted with the permission of the Controller, His Majesty's Stationery Office, London. . Reprint. Softcover.

Canberra: Australian War Memorial. 1968. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 533 pages.. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.

Canberra: Australian War Memorial. 1954. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx].Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ has some light wear to top and tail of spine & is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 731pages.. Australia in the War of 1939-1945 Series 3 Air Volume III. Describes the part played by increasing numbers of Australians in the first four years of the air war in Europe and the Middle East, the integration of Dominion contingents within a vast Commonwealth air force produced a variety of problems, political, administrative and psychological, a frank and authoritative exposition of these problems. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Botley, Oxford: Osprey Publishing. 2002. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards - an excellent copy. Colour and black & white illustrations. 144 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.

Canberra: Aerospace Publications. 1998. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine condition. Card covers. A very nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 176 pages. A comprehensive directory with over 300 entries. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

London: Harrap. 1985. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good [price clipped] dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine gently sunned. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel. 276 pages. Covers his early formative years to his time in Spandau Prison and is a chilling portrait of one of Hitler's senior Nazis. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.

London: Aurum Press. 2016. Oblong Octavo Size [approx 22.8 x 15.3cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 406 pages. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.

London: Collins. 1978. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Chip to lower front panel of DJ and some smaller chips to corners and upper edge. Previous owner's details to front pastedown. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. 320pages. Author was Head of Montgomery's Operations staff 1943-1945. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Osprey Military. 1990. Small Quarto Size. Very Good condition. Colour and black & white illustrations. Colour plates by Angus McBride. Previous Owners name/details to Preliminary Pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 40 pages. Men-at-Arms #120 . Reprint. Softcover.

London: PRC Publishing. 1998. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 144 pages. Illustrated with original photographs and detailing the neglected narratives of this, often necessarily, secretive department of the military, this study provides an invaluable insight to the technology, techniques, and bravery of the missions and the men behind the front lines of the Allied victory. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.