[10th Battalion]. SPAGNOLY, Tony

The Anatomy of a Raid. Australia at Celtic Wood, 9th October 1917. (The Broodseinde Ridge - Third Battle of Ypres)

London, Multidream Publications Ltd., 1991.

Octavo, xxiv, 158 pages with 6 maps (by Ted Smith) and illustrations plus 2 folding maps, 17 plates (including a folding panorama) and a loosely-inserted errata slip.

Cloth slightly rubbed; page xvi slightly marked; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper lightly cockled and sunned.

Analyses events leading up to, during and after a disastrous and tragic raid carried out by eighty-five men of the 10th Battalion AIF; the incident was over in an hour, only sixteen men survived - forty-two disappeared without trace. Edited by Ted Smith, with an introduction by John Laffin.

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