Remember Them. A Guide to Victoria's Wartime Heritage
Melbourne, Hardie Grant Books, 2009. More
Melbourne, Hardie Grant Books, 2009. More
London, Constable, 1977. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 18 April 1932 (second impression)/ 15 April 1932. With a foreword by General Sir Harry Chauvel, 'Late Commanding the Desert Mounted Corps'. Idriess introduces this account of his service with the 5th Light Horse Regiment with these words: it 'is more than my diary. It is..... More
Canberra, The Author, 1995. William Dawkins (1892-1915) entered Duntroon when it opened in 1911; he was with the 2nd Field Company, Australian Engineers, 1st Australian Division when he was killed in action at Gallipoli on 21 May 1915. The author is his niece; a letter and some ephemera relating to..... More
Carlton, Miegunyah Press, 1998. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2018. Adelaide, Gawler, Mallala, Mount Gambier, Parafield, Port Pirie, Victor Harbor. 'At the start of the Second World War there was no permanent RAAF presence in South Australia, but within just two years there were several facilities housing thousands of personnel and hundreds of aircraft. The..... More
General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Land Force, South West Pacific Area, accepted the surrender of Lieutenant General Fusataro Teshima, Commander of the 2nd Japanese Army at Moratai, at '1 Corps Sports Ground. Lt Gen Teshima was accompanied by Captain Toyima, who signed for the Japanese Navy' (Australian War Memorial)..... More
Each sheet measures approximately 183 × 330 mm, inclusive of a sidebar of Japanese text; two have short edge tears (with slight evidence of earlier attempts at repair); the paper is foxed and a little discoloured; overall in very good condition. More
One photograph features columns of soldiers marching with packs and rifles (with fixed bayonets) over a suspension bridge and along a riverside path in a rural area, watched over by a local family standing at the top of a nearby cutting. The second photograph depicts (presumably) the same troops in..... More
London, Stanley Paul & Co, [1913] (second edition)/ 1912. Eleanora Mary, Baroness d'Anethan (1858-1935), sister of the author Rider Haggard, and widow of Baron Albert d'Anethan ('Belgian Minister to the Court of Japan'), spent the years 1893 to 1906 in Japan. More
Carlton, Miegunyah Press, 2007 [first Australian edition]/ 2006. 'An extensive and comprehensive dictionary [which] offers easy-to-find A-Z entries that cover conflicts from practically every era and place of human history. It includes history's best known battles as well as exhaustive coverage of World War I, World War II, the American..... More
London, Hutchinson, 1989. More
Hectorville, Book Agencies of Adelaide Pty Ltd, 1980. Harry 'The Breaker' Morant' was the only Bush-Balladist to be executed, here his finest poems are set to music and emerge as songs. More
Manila, Social Studies Publications, 1977. Inscribed, dated (27 August 1987) and signed to 'Sam Jacobs' (Justice Samuel Jacobs QC) from 'Sybil & Asher' (Sybil Joel née Jacobs). 'An historical narrative of three generations of the Zosa family of Tacloban, provincial capital of Leyte Island, where the Americans made their first..... More
Sydney, Cornstalk, 1925 [first edition]. Dated (1 August 1931), inscribed and signed by the author to Fred Johns, the editor of the first Australian Who's Who. Not least, life in New Guinea after ANMEF (the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force) had removed the Germans in 1914, and some of..... More
Banksmeadow, Renniks, 2008 (first edition). Number 2 of only 50 copies signed by the author on a large card mounted on the front flyleaf. The card is printed with small colour portraits of Keith Payne VC and Cross of Valour recipient Timothy Britten; small cards with their signatures (and place..... More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1975. More
Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1965. More
[USA], Eastern National Park & Monument Association, 1975 (facsimile reprint)/ 1881. 'A standard reference work on the Siege of Yorktown, the climactic battle of the American Revolution' (Foreword). More
'Made in Australia', Ace, [circa 1941]. The bomber illustrated on the front cover is a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, emboldening us to suggest the date. Muir 7023 (undated). More
New York, Scribner, 1996/ 1996 (revised and updated edition)/ 1967. 'The definitive work of its kind ... it remains unsurpassed'. Cover subtitle: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet. More
Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2018. 'Drawing on the work of the many who have written on the subject previously, "Valour and Violets" provides a wholly South Australian perspective on the impact of the Great War on individuals, on families and on our state's coastal, regional, and outback communities. "Valour and..... More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1997. Both brothers 'in different battlions, using different surnames' at Gallipoli; two very different stories. More
[Adelaide], The Author, 1995. More
[Adelaide], The Author, 1995. More