Military Biography from Diversity Books, IOBA

Victoria, Australia: Janette G. Rogers , 1985. (x), + 222pp., illustrated throughout: b/white halftone plates, facsimiles, and line-drawn maps. Book clean. Spine firm, mildly sunned, title clearly legible. Leaves clean and unmarked, soft corner crease to several. Illustrated card wrapper has corresponding sunned strips adjacent to spine on front and rear panels, corner crease to lower foredge corner of front… Read more about this item

Queensland, Australia: Wayne Brown, 2006. 254pp. B/white illustrations. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Author signature to title page, else leaves clean and unmarked. Colour-illustrated (front panel: photo of oil painting by artist Mainwaring, which hangs in the Australian War Memorial; rear panel: decorations and service medals awarded to 'Blue' Reiter) has minor edgewear and chipping to lower edge. Contents… Read more about this item

Flinders, Victoria, Australia: Flinders District Historical Society 105pp. B/white illustrations intext. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly edgeworn only. From the rear panel: "The story of a young man from Flinders, a farming community on the Mornington Peninsula, who volunteered to join the army with his mates from school, and found himself in the… Read more about this item

Victoria, Australia: Publishing Solutions [2004] xi, + 196pp. B/white illustrations, maps. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper softly and minimally edge-creased at head. From the rear panel: "John McCredie was Minister at the Australian Embassy, Jakarta, when these letters were written to a fifteen year old daughter at boarding school in Victoria who… Read more about this item

East Roseville, N.S.W., Australia: Kangaroo Press, 2001. (xii) + 226pp. Unpaginated, b/white halftone plate section. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper minimally bumped and edgeworn. A tiny speck on foot of textblock, else leaves unmarked. In this Japanese prisoner-of-war memoir, young Australian soldier Les (Leslie Norman) Atkinson (1922-2001) recounts his and his fellow prisoners' time with… Read more about this item

Newport, N.S.W., Australia : Big Sky Publishing Pty. Ltd. , 2018. 230pp. Photographic, montage-illustrated endpapers. Unpaginated, monochrome and duo-tone halftone plate section. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over firm spine. Plain black boards undamaged. Illustrated dustjacket nominally edgeworn only. Using his WW2 diary entries and photographs, his grand-daughter Jaci Byrne has compiled a fascinating insight into the… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1965. xvii, + 332pp. North Pacific Region endpaper maps. Unpaginated b/white halftone plates throughout (all called-for plates extant and attached, including frontispiece subject portrait). Book clean and square. Vivid silver title over nominally bumped spine. Plain black, original cloth boards undamaged. Textblock flecked on edges, else unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket price-clipped, edgeworn and nipped, with several closed… Read more about this item

London: Cassell and Company , 1955. 270pp. Unpaginated b/white halftone plates throughout, including frontispiece (all called-for plates extant and attached). Book clean and square. Vivid silver title over minimally bumped and colour-flecked spine. Blue cloth boards very good. No dustjacket. A former owner's name on front pastedown, a faint, original seller's stamp on front free endpaper, else textblock unmarked.… Read more about this item

Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Macmillan, 2014. 314pp. Unpaginated (16 page) b/white halftone plate section. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper minimally edgeworn only. Textblock unmarked. When Australia, as a member of the British Empire, entered World War I, volunteers swarmed to enlist. Among the recruits, however, were criminals with extensive police records . . . This interesting… Read more about this item

Australia: Xlibris, 2016. xii, + 258pp., b/white halftone plate illustrations throughout. Book clean. Spine firm, but mildly canted. Colour-illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped only. A brief ('To W . . . '), dated personal inscription, signed by author on title page, else textblock very good. The author, in this engrossing book, relates his early years, his time in the… Read more about this item

Crows Nest, N.S.W., Australia: ABC Enterprises, 1990. xiii, + 140pp., intext, b/white halftone plates and line-drawn maps. Book clean and square. Spine firm, trivially faded. Illustrated (montage style) card wrapper minimally bumped on foredge corners. Textblock unmarked. 'The Boys Who Came Home' is a compilation of personal narratives recalling individual experiences on Gallipoli by soldiers if the A.I.F., Lancashire… Read more about this item

North Sydney, Australia: Random House Australia, 2007. xxi, + 596pp., unpaginated, b/white halftone plate sections, plus several intext theatre maps. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper undamaged. Textblock unmarked. This book tells the story of Australia's greatest military commander and tactician who, post-war as an engineer, oversaw the growth of Victoria's State Electricity Commission. The immense… Read more about this item

Camberwell, VIC, Australia: Viking (Penguin), 2004. viii, + 503pp., unpaginated, b/white halftone plate sections. Patterned endpapers: security bar affixed to rear pastedown. Book clean and square. Red title over lightly bumped spine. Plain beige boards undamaged. Textblock edges flecked, leaves tanned. Illustrated dustjacket minimally edgeworn and colour-faded on spine. " . . . brings together the first-hand accounts of… Read more about this item

Fisher, A.C.T., Australia : Author (Geoff Feasey), 1999. (vii), + 318pp., one unpaginated colour plate section, plus an unpaginated b/white halftone plate section. Book clean and square. Spine firm, lightly chipped. Art-illustrated (Geoff Feasey, Caribbean,1967 by Mrs Marian Melin) card wrapper slightly edgeworn, and has a sticker ghost on front wrap. Minimal fleck on head of textblock, else leaves… Read more about this item

New York: The Penguin Press, 2014. (xv), + 269pp., line-drawn maps (Jeffrey L. Ward), plus intext b/white halftone plates throughout. Book clean. Vivid silver title over slightly canted spine. Grey boards nominally bumped on upper foredge corner of rear board. A small brown remainder dot on head, else textblock unmarked. Printed dustjacket minimally edgeworn only. 'Knife Fights' is the… Read more about this item

London (Printed in Australia): Little, Brown, 2011. (viii), + 312pp., unpaginated, b/white halftone plate sections (archival and private sources), plus intext, line-drawn theatre maps. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper nominally bumped only. Textblock lightly tanned, else unmarked. " 'Black Watch' is both the epic story of the Scottish 51st Highland Division, and a searing personal… Read more about this item

Singapore: Changi University Press, 2008. 228pp., art and photographic b/white illustrated section. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper minimally edgeworn only. Textblock unmarked. The author, who was born in 1919 and died in 2009, was studying architecture at the University of Liverpool when war broke out in 1939. He was a gunner-surveyor with his regiment, the… Read more about this item

Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin Books, 2003. 368pp., unpaginated b/white halftone plate sections, plus intext line-drawn maps. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped and edgeworn. Textblock has a remainder stripe on foot, else unmarked. 'Long Journey to the Border' is the incredible story of New Zealand author and heroic soldier, John Alan Edward Mulgan (1911-1945).… Read more about this item

Auckland, New Zealand: David Ling Publishing, 1995. 175pp., two unpaginated b/white halftone plate sections, plus an intext theatre map. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Art-illustrated (detail, 'Infantry Advance Senio River', Peter McIntyre) card wrapper trivially bumped on foredge corners, else minimal colour fade on spine. Textblock unmarked. " . . . charts the official course of the New Zealand… Read more about this item

Toorak, VIC, Australia: Michael Clarke Press, 1990. viii, + 527pp., b/white, author-portrait frontispiece, intext halftone plates and two colour-maps, throughout. Book clean. Bright gilt title over mildly canted and bumped spine. Plain ochre-brown boards lightly edgeworn. Textblock flecked on edges, else leaves clean. Portrait-illustrated dustjacket slightly edgeworn and colour-faded on spine. " . . . utterly candid, personal story of… Read more about this item