A Thousand Men at War. The Story of the 2/16th Battalion AIF
London, Heinemann, 1959.
Octavo, xii, 259 pages with 8 maps plus 35 plates.
Cloth lettered in gilt on the spine (with most of the gilt now flaked off); new endpapers; edges a little foxed; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper rubbed, a little creased, torn and chipped with slight loss.
'The 16th Battalion, originally recruited in Western Australia, suffered heavy casualties, and eventually, through reinforcements, represented a wide cross-section of the typical Australian citizen-soldier' (dustwrapper blurb). Trigellis-Smith 383.
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