Item #117167 The Story of the Fifth Australian Division. Being an Authoritative Account of the Division's Doings in Egypt, France and Belgium. 5th Infantry Division, Captain Alexander Donaldson ELLIS.
The Story of the Fifth Australian Division. Being an Authoritative Account of the Division's Doings in Egypt, France and Belgium

The Story of the Fifth Australian Division. Being an Authoritative Account of the Division's Doings in Egypt, France and Belgium

London, Hodder and Stoughton, [circa 1920].

Large octavo, xx, 468 pages with 20 maps and diagrams plus 3 folding maps and 16 plates (including 2 tipped-in colour plates).

Gilt-decorated cloth a little marked and slightly unevenly sunned; edges foxed, with occasional scattered foxing elsewhere; flyleaves heavily offset, with minor silverfish damage to the bottom corner of the rear one; a very good copy.

The foreword is by Marshal Foch. The book is not identified as such, but it comes from the personal collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas Paterson (1886-1950), Commanding Officer of the 39th Battalion AIF, and the author of that battalion's history. Dornbusch 311; Fielding and O'Neill, page 225; Trigellis-Smith 188.

Item #117167

Price (AUD): $450.00