Item #117105 The Thirty-Ninth. The History of the 39th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. 39th Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas PATERSON.
The Thirty-Ninth. The History of the 39th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force
The Thirty-Ninth. The History of the 39th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force

The Thirty-Ninth. The History of the 39th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force

Melbourne, G.W. Green and Sons, 1934.

Octavo, 371 pages with 8 illustrations (including a map) plus 28 plates and 11 folding maps with captioned paper guards.

Cloth a little flecked and marked; top edge foxed; a very good copy.

The front flyleaf is signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas Paterson (1886-1950), the battalion's Commanding Officer ('A.T. Paterson Lt.Col'). Dornbusch 334; Fielding and O'Neill, page 228 (giving the author as P.V. Allen, credited in the editor's foreword with laying much of the groundwork for the book); Trigellis-Smith 236.

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