Guilty or Innocent? The Gordon Bennett Case
Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1992. Inscribed, 'To Colonel Chittleborough, The issue of justice and a fair hearing', and signed in ink by the author. More
Second World War
Corvettes. Little Ships for Big Men
Budgewoi, Kingfisher, 1995. Includes 108 pages which provide a brief history of each Australian-built corvette, based on material supplied by the RAN and the RAN Corvettes Association. 'In the scale of naval size corvettes were pygmies, but they performed like giants' (subtitle). More
Derrick V.C.
Adelaide, Rigby, 1982. Farquhar fought at 'Tobruk, El Alamein, Sattelburg and in Borneo, where he was killed in action on the island of Tarakan'. This account uses Derrick's own diaries. More
Spin Me a Dit! Tales of the Royal Australian Navy
Adelaide, The Author, 1984. Loosely inserted is a reproduced poem, 'Sabbath Partings' by one of the crew of 'HMAS Pirie', believed to be Dorky Kendrick. More
The Fighting Ninth. Official Journal of the 9th Battalion AIF Association. No. 13, December 1960 [to] No. 19, November 1966
Brisbane, 9th Battalion AIF Association, 1960 to 1966. These issues contain much of interest in relation to the 9th Battalion's service in the First World War, including lengthy accounts of the Gallipoli campaign and several battles on the Western Front. One of the contributions is by Bill Harney. Perhaps more..... More
Purple and Blue. The History of the 2/10th Battalion AIF (the Adelaide Rifles), 1939-1945
[Adelaide, 2/10th Battalion Association], November 2008/ 1993 [facsimile reprint with a new supplement]/ 1958. The history is updated to 2008, and contains complete nominal and honour rolls, a foreword by Peter Brune, and much else. Unstated in the book, but we know it to be limited to only 250 copies..... More
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A Century of Conflict, 1848-1948. [A five-volume boxed set comprising] The Struggle for Mastery in Europe I; The Struggle for Mastery in Europe II; The First World War and its Aftermath; The Origins of the Second World War; [and] The Second World War and its Aftermath
London, The Folio Society, 1998 [first thus]. [5 items]. More
The Spitfire, Mustang and Kittyhawk in Australian Service
Sydney, Aerospace Publications, 1993 (third impression)/ 1988. The first book in the Australian Air Power series. More
Beaufort, Beaufighter and Mosquito in Australian Service
Canberra, Aerospace Publications, 1990. The fourth book in the Australian Air Power series. More
Anson, Hudson and Sunderland in Australian Service
Canberra, Aerospace Publications, 1992. The ninth book in the Australian Air Power series. More
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. A History of Nazi Germany
London, The Folio Society, 2004 (first thus)/ 1959. Lavishly illustrated, with different endpaper maps showing the advance - and retreat - of Nazi Germany. William Lawrence Shirer (1904-1993)was 'a foreign correspondent whose pioneering live trans-Atlantic radio broadcasts on the eve of World War II helped inform Americans about Nazi Germany..... More
Bombers North. Allied bomber operations from Northern Australia, 1942-1945
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2023. 'Drawing on a wealth of new sources ... for the first time the full story of a little-known bomber offensive waged from remote northern Australia' (rear cover blurb). Not least, B-25 Mitchells and B-24 Liberators. More
Boston, Mitchell and Liberator in Australian Service
Canberra, Aerospace Publications, 1992. The eighth book in the Australian Air Power series. More
Boston, Mitchell and Liberator in Australian Service
Canberra, Aerospace Publications, 1992. The eighth book in the Australian Air Power series. More
Dust in the Lion's Paw. Autobiography, 1939-1946
London, John Murray, 1962 (second impression)/ 1961. More
Catalina Chronicle. A History of RAAF Operations
Adelaide, The Author, 1978 (first edition). Number 597 of 1000 copies; this copy is inscribed, dated (December 1978) and signed by the author. More
C.S. Lewis. Collected Letters. Volume II: Books, Broadcasts, and the War 1931-1949
London, Harper Collins Publishers, 2004. More
Ill Met by Moonlight
London, The Folio Society, 2007 (fifth impression)/ 2001. The author's personal account of the kidnapping of General Kreipe on Nazi-occupied Crete. With an introduction by M.R.D. Foot, prologue and epilogue by Iain Moncreiffe, and afterword by Patrick Leigh Fermor. More
Special Intelligence Service in the Far East, 1942-1946. An Historical and Pictorial Record. [S.I.S. Record (cover title)]
[Brooklyn, New York], SIS Record Association, [1946]. The foreword is by General Douglas MacArthur, Commander-in-Chief, United States Army Forces, Pacific: 'Upon the eve of the deactivation of the S.I.S. of the South West Pacific Area and of the Army Forces, Pacific, I wish to commend this organization and its members..... More
Operation and Service Manual. Wright Cyclone 9 Aircraft Engines. Series C9GA, C9GB, C9GC
Paterson, Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 1943 (first edition, second printing)/ 1943. This American-designed radial engine (formerly designated the GR-1820-G series) powered many well-known Second World War aircraft, including some produced by France and Russia. More
Whispering Death. A History of the RAAF's Beaufighter Squadrons
Sydney, Reed, 1980. Numbers 30, 31 and 93 Squadrons RAAF, and Number 77 Wing RAAF in the Pacific. Not least, the appendices: Awards, Aircrew and Aircraft Serials and History. More
The Deceivers
London, The Folio Society, 2008 (first thus: 'this Folio edition follows the text of the revised 2007 paperback edition, with some minor emendations'). A comprehensive history of Allied deception in World War Two. [2 items]. More
The Jap Was Thrashed. An Official Story of the Australian Soldier. First Victor of the 'Invincible' Jap, New Guinea, 1942-43
[Melbourne], The Director General of Public Relations, [1944]. Including Milne Bay, Owen Stanleys, Buna-Gona and Sanananda. More
The End of the Japanese Imperial Navy. [A Japanese Account of the rise and fall of Japan's seapower, with emphasis on World War II (dustwrapper subtitle)]
London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1962 (first edition in English). Translated by Andrew Y. Kuroda and Roger Pineau. More