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Customs of the Royal Australian Air Force
RAAF Publications Unit 1996 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good Issued Without Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
59 pages. Illustrated, stiff card cover, minor edge-wear. Pages are clean, straight & unmarked. Tight binding. 001683
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Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation Vols 1 - 5
Grolier Educational Corporation 1980 Connecticut, USA 0710607105 / 9780710607102 Hard Cover Very Good Slip Case - Fair 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Blue-cloth covers, edge-wear, some rubbing, light marks. Long note to ex-owner on front fly-leaf of volume 1, otherwise pages clean & straight. Strong, intact binding. Blue slip case, fading, rubbing, edge-wear, whole & intact. 000865
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Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I
Military Press 1990 New York 0517033755 / 9780517033753 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
320 pages. Blue-cloth cover, very minor edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, very minor edge-wear. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Binding slightly soft, but strong and intact. ". includes photographs, line drawings and data tables, providing the reader with instant reference to the great fleets that clashed at sea. Comparison of the eight great fleets of 1914, those of Great Britain, Germany, the United States, Japan, France, Italy, Austro-Hungary and Russia reveals many similarities." 000853
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Selected Military Writings of Mao Tse-Tung
Foreign Languages Press 1968 Peking First Pocket Edition Soft Cover Fine Fine 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
410 pages, red page ribbon in place, like new. Red cover, no marks, no wear. One very tiny tear to front fly-leaf otherwise pages are clean, straight & unmarked. Tight binding. 001582
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So Many, so Much, So Far, So Fast; United States Transportation Command and Strategc Deployment for Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm
Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and United States Transportation Command 1996 USA Second Printing Hard Cover Fine Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
318 pages, b/w photos. Black-cloth cover. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, some edge-wear, small chips. Pages clean, straight & unmarked, maps at rear all intact. Strong, intact binding. ". examines the U.S. strategic lift for Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm from the perspective of United States Transportation Command, the unified command responsible for the deploying and sustaining U.S. forces worldwide. Other topics covered are containerization of ammunition and unit cargo; security against terrorists and saboteurs; contributions to reservists; and command, control, communications, and computer transportation systems." 000780
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The War Years 1939 - 1945; Eyewitness Accounts
Marshall Cavendish Books Limited 1994 London, England First Edition 1854357204 / 9781854357205 Hard Cover Very Good Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
266 pages + index. Illustrated cover, very minor edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, stretching and slight peeling to edges, slight chipping to top corner. Note to ex-owner on 1/2 title, a few small spots through book, otherwise pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "A helpful introduction and at-a-glance, year-by-year summaries of key events guide the reader through the political and millitary aspects of the war. The eyewitness accounts bring these facts to life by presenting war's human face, full of love, comradeship and sometimes fear. Over 470 photographs amplify the text and evoke the period in vivid and graphic detail." 000835
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Sanctuary! Nazi Fugitives in Australia
Aarons, Mark William Heinemann Australia Pty Ltd 1989 Victoria, Australia First Edition 0855613327 / 9780855613327 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
385 pages, b/w photos. Black-cloth cover, minor edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, minor edge-wear. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "Australia has not witnessed a scandal of the enormity exposed for the first time in this book. The appalling truth is that, after the Second World War, Australia gave safe haven to hundreds of Nazi war criminals from all over Europe, who hid among the legitimate refugees and victims of Nazism and arrived in Australia under post-war immigration schemes. Some of them were men who personally participated in the slaughter of thousands of innocent people. How was it possible for them to find sanctuary in Australia." 000891
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Vietnam on Film; From the Green Berets to Apocalypse Now
Adair, Gilbert Proteus Books 1981 New York First Edition 0906071437 / 9780906071434 Hard Cover Very Good Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
192 page, b/w illustrated. Black-cloth cover, minor edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, slight edge-wear, few small closed tears, very minor chipping. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. ". moves from the exploitation and naivete of 'The Green Berets' the light-hearted draft-dodging of 'Greetings', the clumsy commentary of 'The Boys in Company C', through the 'aftermath' statements of 'Taxi Driver', 'Dog Soldiers' and 'Coming Home' to the powerful pretension of 'The Deer Hunter' and finally, 'Apocalypse Now'." 000299
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Prisoners of War, From Gallipoli to Korea
Adam-Smith, Patsy Penguin Books Australia Ltd 1992 Victoria, Australia First Edition 0670903086 / 9780670903085 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
599 page, b/w illustrations thr/out. Black-cloth cover, gold titling to spine, very minor edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, very minor edge-wear. Note to ex-owner on front fly-leaf, otherwise pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. ". uses dozens of interviews with former POWs . to show the strength and courage of Australians taken prisoner in WWI, WWII and the Korean war. . the men and women in this book were chosen to represent all, to give a sample of what made a prisoner, cheered or dismayed him, crippled or ennobled him." 000160
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The Anzacs
Adam-Smith, Patsy Thomas Nelson Australia 1983 Victoria, Australia Reprint 0170050661 / 9780170050661 Hard Cover Good Fair 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
372 page, b/w photographs. Brown-cloth cover, some edge-wear and pushing to spine edges, seconds mark to bottom of closed page edge. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, several large repaired tears, some chipping, some slight stretching to edges, still whole. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "This is the story of World War I in the words of the men who sailed away from Australia to the greatest holocaust the world has ever known. Their simple letters and diaries tell more vividly than any conventional history what life was like in that appalling pageant, the Great War." 000493
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God's Terrorists; The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad
Allen, Charles Da Capo Press 2006 Ma, USA First Thus 0306815222 / 9780306815225 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
349 pages, b/w illustrations. Cream-cloth cover, blue to spine, very minor edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, very minor edge-wear, very minor shelf rubbing. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "In the post-9/11 world, each day's news presents us with images of fanatical fighters and suicide bombers willing to die in holy war - martyrs for jihad. But what are the roots of this militant fundamentalism in the Muslim world? This history offers no solutions but it does illustrate patterns of behavior, successes and failures from which lessons might be drawn." 000592
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1812; the Great Retreat
Austin, Paul Britten Greenhill Books 1996 London First Edition 1853672467 / 9781853672460 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
464 pages, b/w photos. Green boards, very minor rubbing to edges. Illustrated, unclipped jacket,very minor edge-wear. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. ".tells the story of the end of the most famously disastrous campaign in history, using the words of the survivors to describe their desperate withdrawal from Russia. Napoleon's campaign had begun with more than a third of a million men setting out on what was to be a long and terrible march to the glittering city of Moscow. Only 100,000 were to reach it. Forced to turn back in the face of winter's onset, almost nothing of the drastically reduced army lived to recross the Niemen River." 001235
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The Medieval Military Revolution; State, Society, and Military Change in Medieval and early Modern Europe
Ayton, Andrew; Price, J. L. (eds) Barnes & Noble, Inc. 1995 New York 0760707669 / 9780760707661 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
208 pages. Blue-cover, very minor edge-wear. Illlustrated, unclipped jacket, very minor shelf-rubbing to rear. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Tight binding. "Through an in-depth introduction and nine compelling essays by well-known medievalists . persuasively argue that rather than constitue a radical departure from the immediate past, many military innovations attributed to the early modern period can be traced back to - and indeed found flourishing in - the latter part of the Middle Ages." 000679
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Churchill and Eden at War
Barker, Elisabeth Macmillan London Limited 1978 London, England First Edition 0333234677 / 9780333234679 Hard Cover Very Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
346 page, red-cloth cover, gold titling to spine, minor rubbing and denting to edges. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, minor rubbing, denting, chipping and peeling along edges, several fixed tears, otherwise clean and straight. Very small denting to bottom of several pages, otherwise pages clean, straight and unmarked. Strong, intact binding. " . a study of British policy during the Second World War seen from the personal points of view of the two highly articulate men who made it. . Churchill . Eden has given the (author) a vivid day-to-day record of their continuous dialogue." 000107
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We We There; Australian Soldiers of World War II Tell Their Stories
Barrett, John Viking 1987 Victoria, Australia First Edition 0670816272 / 9780670816279 Hard Cover Fair Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
470 pages, b/w photos thr/out. Blue-cloth cover, some edge-wear, board cracked at back. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, some edge-wear, small chips and closed tears, creasing to back. Pages age browned evenly, unmarked & straight. Strong, intact binding. "Ageing men in the 1980s, they filled in a long and searching questionnaire. They were encouraged to think back, feel back, search back - however painfully - to the days when they were young, and growing up in a world that, still retarded by economic depression, was nevertheless lurching on into a global conflict . weaves together a vivid account of the wide-ranging lives and attitudes of some ordinary Australians who went to war." 000874
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13/13 Vietnam: Search & Destroy - A Photographic Essay
Baxter, Gordon The World Publishing Company 1967 Cleveland, USA First Softcover Edition Soft Cover Very Good Issued Without Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
120 pages, b/w photos thr/out. Illustrated card cover, very minor edge-wear. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Binding is a bit dry, however is intact. ". it is much more than just an album of war photographs. The pictures are far more telling than, say, the electronic impersonality of TV newsreels. They show cruelty and kindness, destruction and civic action; in short, they mirror the reality of Vietnam. the text enriches without dominating the photographs, which are the book." 000667
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A Long Way Gone; Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Beah, Ishmael Sarah Crichton Books 2007 New York 0374105235 / 9780374105235 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
229 pages. Brown-cloth cover, very minor edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, very minor edge-wear. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Tight binding. "This is how wars are fought now: by children, traumatized, hopped-up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. Children have become the soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them." 000914
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The Japanese Experience; A Short history of Japan
Beasley, W. G. Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1999 London, England 0297643088 / 9780297643081 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
299 pages, b/w photos thr/out. Black-cloth cover, very minor edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, very minor edge-wear. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Tight binding. ". an authoritative, lucid and concise history of Japan from the sixth century to the present day. It is the history of a society and a culture with a distinct sense of itself . examines the changing society and culture of Japan and considers what, apart from the land and the people, is specifically Japanese about the history of Japan." 000818
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The Mystery of Olga Chekhova; Was Hitler's Favourite Actress a Russion Spy?
Beevor, Antony Viking 2004 London, England First Edition 0670915203 / 9780670915200 Hard Cover Fine Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
300 pages, b/w photos. Black cover. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, very minor edge-wear. Small light marks to closed page edges, otherwise pages clean, straight & unmarked. Tight binding. ". the extraordinary tale of how one family survived the Russian Revolution, the civil war, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist Terror and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union." 001123
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Desert Warrior
Bin Sultan, HRH General Khaled HarperCollins Publishers 1995 London, England 000255612X / 9780002556125 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
492 page, b/w & colours photos, illustrated end papers. Blue-cloth cover, minor edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, minor edge-wear. Bookshop plate on front end paper otherwise pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "Packed full of startling information and fascinating anecdotes . candid, uncensored autobiography of a leading Saudi prince . won international renown in the war against Saddam Hussein . to protect the independence and sovereignty of his country in the face of overwhelming American power . not just another war book . journey behind the scenes of one of the most discreet ruling establishments in the world." 000339
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