The Battle Honours of the British and Indian Armies, 1662 - 1982
London, Leo Cooper, 1987. Number 310 of 750 copies signed by the author on a limitation label mounted on the front flyleaf. Definitive. More
Militaria
Seventeen Letters to Tatham. A WWI Surgeon in East Africa
Toronto, Keneggy West, 2002 (second printing)/ 2001. Dated (20 September 2002), signed and warmly inscribed in ink by the author on the title-page. More
High in the Empty Blue. The History of 56 Squadron RFC/ RAF, 1916-1919
Mountain View, Flying Machines Press, 1995. 56 Squadron was formed at Gosport on 8 June 1916 and was posted to France in April 1917. It was the first unit equipped with the S.E.5. Over 25 pilots qualifed as 'ace' with 56, including the famous James McCudden VC (1895-1918; 51 kills)..... More
Tinana War Memorial. A Summary of all those so dedicated on this Monument
[Maryborough, Maryborough Military & Colonial Museum, circa 2009]. More
A Tribute to those Employees of The Metropolitan Gas Company who served in The Great War
[No Place, No Publisher, 1990s facsimile]/ 1919. Chiefly some 50 pages (rectos only) of small portraits. More
Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal, 1914-1920. Overseas Forces, Section 1: Australia
[Brisbane, Institution of Engineers, Queensland Division, 1987]. More
Winston S. Churchill [the complete Official Biography with matching Companion Volumes]
London, Heinemann, 1966 to 1988 (all first editions). The biography proper comprises eight volumes, as follows. Volume 1: Youth, 1874-1900 (1966). Volume 2: Young Statesman, 1901-1914 (1967). Volume 3: The Challenge of War, 1914-1916 (1971). Volume 4: 1917-1922 (1975). Volume 5: 1922-1939 (1976). Volume 6: Finest Hour, 1939-1941 (1983). Volume..... More
Convoys up the Track. A History of 121st Australian General Transport Company (AIF), 1941-1946
Adelaide, The Author, 1991. Inscribed and signed in ink by the author on the title page. The story of the army transport units that were the vital link between the railheads of Alice Springs, Mt Isa and Larrimah. More
Outback Corridor. World War 2 Lines of Communication Across Australia from Adelaide and Mt Isa to Darwin. Northern Territory Wartime Experiences. Army Women's Services in the NT
Plympton, [The Author], 2002. Dated (20 January 2003), inscribed and signed in ink by the author on the title page. More
The de Havilland Mosquito
New York, Arco Publishing Company, Inc., 1977. More
Uniforms and Equipment of the British Army in World War I. A Study in Period Photographs
Atglen, Schiffer Military History, 2005. 'Royal Flying Corps, Field Infantry, MGC and Tank Corps, Royal Engineers, Royal Artillery, Infantry Weapons, Insignia' (sub-title). More
Fourteen Years of Diplomatic Life in Japan. Leaves from the Diary of Baroness Albert d'Anethan
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
The Supplement to The Postal History of the Australian Imperial Forces During World War One, 1914-1918
Worthing, The Author, 1988. More
Oliphant. The Life and Times of Sir Mark Oliphant
Adelaide, The Authors/ Axiom Books Pty Ltd, 1981. Signed by Sir Mark Oliphant on a printed label mounted on the front flyleaf, indicating that this is number 343 of a 'limited numbered and signed edition to mark his ninetieth birthday on 8 November 1991'. The book itself is the 1981..... More
The New Guinea Offensives
Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1968/ 1961. Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 1 (Army), Volume 6. More
The Japanese Thrust
Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1968 (reprint)/ 1957. Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 1 (Army), Volume 4. More
To Benghazi
Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1961 [reprinted with corrections]/ 1952. Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 1 (Army), Volume 1. 'This volume ... carries the story of the Second A.I.F. up to the end of the operations in Cyrenaica in the first quarter of 1941'. More
Oliphant. The Life and Times of Sir Mark Oliphant
Adelaide, The Authors/ Axiom Books Pty Ltd, 1981. Inscribed and signed in ink by Stewart Cockburn, 'For David Robertson. A key figure in this story!'. David Robertson was an American engineer who worked with Oliphant on the development of radar (see Index for more). More
Digging up the Digger's War. Australian Battlefield Archaeology
Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1993. More
Australia in the War of 1939-1945 [the official history, complete in 22 volumes in five series: Army (7 volumes); Navy (2 volumes); Air (4 volumes); Civil (5 volumes); and Medical (4 volumes)]
Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1953 to 1977 (eight volumes are second printings, one of them - the first in the Army series - with corrections; three volumes are third printings; the other eleven are first editions). [22 items]. More
Carte de l'Empire Français et du Royaume d'Italie, avec une partie des Etats qui sont sous la protection de l'Empereur Napoléon, dédiée à sa Majesté par Ch[ar]les Picquet, Géographe-Graveur de son Cabinet Topographique et de S.M. le Roi de Hollande, Connétable de France. Rédigée par Picquet et dressée par Lapie, Capitaine-Ingénieur-Géographe
Paris, Charles Picquet, [circa 1814]/ [1807]. A later issue of this handsome map, updated to show the contraction of France after the Treaty of Fontainebleau and Napoleon's exile to Elba. Beneath the printed border is an additional legend, not present in earlier issues, showing 'Nouvelle limite du Royaume de France..... More
From Trench and Turret. Royal Marines Letters and Diaries, 1914-1918
Portsmouth, Royal Marines Museum, [late 1980s]. More
Beaucoup Australiens ici. The Australian Corps in France, 1918
Canberra, Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs, 1998. More
A Guide to the Beaches and Battlefields of Normandy
London, Michael Joseph, 1994. Dated (March 1998), inscribed and signed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf. 'Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of D-Day' (dustwrapper). More
VCs of the First World War. Gallipoli
Great Britain, Wrens Park, 2000 (reprint)/ 1998. More