The Desert Column - Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai, and Palestine

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1941. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Dust-jacket has extensive paper and masking tape "repairs" on the reverse side, as well as a couple of unrepaired 70mm tears. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; viii, [2], 388 pages. Maps on endpapers. Grey-green cloth boards. Small illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 182mm x 121mm. With a Foreword by General Sir Harry Chauvel. "The 'Desert Column' is more than my diary. It is myself. I began the diary as we crowded the decks off Gallipoli and watched the first shells crash into the Turkish soil. Gradually it grew to be a mania: I would whip out the little book and note, immediately, anything exciting that was happening." - from the Author's Note, page vii. "Evening - An elusive vista of hills behind the dim outline of ships, a faint boom-oom-oom, then, like bursting stars, the shells struck a hillside here, there! over there! here again! everywhere!" - page 1. .