The Thirty-Niners Tapa dura - 1981

In very good condition - has inscription on front cover - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.They were branded 'economic conscripts', 'five bob a day murderers', fugitives from wives, families and responsibility. And the original volunteers for the second Australian Imperial Force, the men who enlisted in those last months of 1939, were reckless, adventurous, wild and flamboyant. They were also, according to General Sir Thomas Blamey, 'the first and the finest'; men raised on the feats of the ANZACs and keen to uphold its legend.The Thirty-niners sailed for the Middle East in early 1940. Their grand and successful campaigns in the Libyan Desert - the storming of Bardia and Tobruk and the capture of thousands of prisoners - were followed by the debacles of Greece and Crete. Nearly one-third of these original volunteers spent the rest of the war in German POW camps.Using letters, diaries, interviews, published battalion and unit memoirs and… Leer más

Australia: Macmillan, 1981. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good/Good. xx,280pp, index, maps, plates. Gift inscription else good in sl chipped dj. Size: 8vo

South Melbourne: MacMillan. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0333337808 . xix, 279 pages, illustrated, Fathers Day gift inscription on front endpaper.; 235 x 160mm .

Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 700 g; XVI, 280 pages, indexed, and illustrated with black-and-white photographs and at least one map. Illustrated end pages, colour illustrated dustjacket. Very slight rubbing to the spine section of the bottom edge of the boards. No other damage to describe. Using letters, diaries, interviews, published battalion and unit memoirs an official histories and documents, Peter Charlton looks at the powerful legend of the AIF, the troubled response of the Australian government to the early days of the war and the arguments over the return of the troops to Australia in 1942. -- Front fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; ISBN: 0333337808. ISBN/EAN: 9780333337806. Inventory No:… Leer más

(South Melbourne: Macmillan: 1981) First Edition. ISBN 0 333 33780 8. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xx, 279. Illustrated. Maps. Sources. Index. The original volunteers for the second Australian Imperial Force. First Edition. About fine copy in very good dust-jacket.