Military Books at Dial a Book Sydney

English Battles and Sieges in the Peninsular
Napier, Lieut.-Gen. Sir William
Book Number: 67906
ISBN:
Publisher: John Murray, London, 1910.
8vo. hardcover. 469pp. Fair, some foxing chips to spine.
Price: $15.00

GOODBYE COBBER, GOD BLESS YOU - The Fatal Charge of the Light Horse, Gallipoli, August 7th 1915.
Hamilton, John
Book Number: 67873
ISBN: 1405036249
Publisher: Macmillan, 2004
8vo softcover 365pp. Very good, crease on bottom front cover corner, light toning to page edges, spine faded. Illustrated with photographs. On August 7th, 1915, men of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade staged one of the most tragic, brave and futile charges of the First World War. Seeking to break out of the Anzac position at Gallipoli, they attempted to storm an extraordinarily strong Turkish position, defended by artillery, machine guns and thousands of men, using nothing but fixed bayonets and raw courage. The first wave of Light Horsemen were killed within seconds of leaving their trench, yet over the course of the next few minutes, three more lines went over the top, across the bodies of their dead and dying comrades, only to be instantly cut down themselves. All of them knew they were about to die. None held back. It was a massacre immortalised in Peter Weir''s film, Gallipoli. Just before the order was given to send the third line, Trooper Harold Rush turned to his mate standing next to him and said
Price: $10.00

Accommodating the King's Hard Bargain: Military Detention in the Australian Army 1914 - 1947
Wilson, Graham
Book Number: 67870
ISBN: 9781925275834
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing, Australia, 2016.
8vo. hardcover. 704pp. index, b/w illus. Fine. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $22.00

The First Vcs: The Stories Behind the First Victoria Crosses in the Crimean War and the Definition of Courage
Grehan, John
Book Number: 67871
ISBN: 9781473851719
Publisher: Frontline Books, Yorkshire 2016.
8vo. hardcover. 287pp. b/w plates.Very good+. / Near Fine d/w.
Price: $45.00

Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb
Feifer, George
Book Number: 67837
ISBN: 0935599245
Publisher: Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1992.
8vo. hardcover. 622pp. index, b/w plates, b/w map, endpaper maps. Near Fine. / Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00

Australian War Diary : Australian Armed Forces in a Changing World - 1870-2011
no author stated
Book Number: 67699
ISBN: 9781864711202
Publisher: Random House Australia 2010.
Large 8vo. laminated boards, hardcover. 303pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $12.00

Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Book Number: 67629
ISBN: 0805050779
Publisher: Metropolitan Books Henry Holt, New York 1997.
8vo. hardcover. 292pp. index. Very good, foxing to edge of text-block. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

Diggers In France: Australian Soldiers On The Western Front
Travers, Richard
Book Number: 67418
ISBN: 9780733323423
Publisher: ABC Books, Sydney, 2008.
8vo. softcover. 405pp. index, b/w illus. Good, a few pages creased on top corner.
Price: $10.00

We Were Wmm's: The War of the Airwaves. Stories of RAAF Wireless Radio Mechanics
Brown, Don (editor)
Book Number: 67420
ISBN: 0646084585
Publisher: Published by By Author, 1992
8vo. softcover. 117pp. b/w illus. Very good. Inscribed by author.
Price: $8.00

Auschwitz. The Nazis & The 'Final Solution'
Rees, Laurence
Book Number: 67391
ISBN: 0563521171
Publisher: BBC BOOKS, 2005
8vo hardcover 320pp. index, b/w plates. Very good, light toning and light foxing to page edges. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

SOE Singapore 1941-42
Gough, Richard
Book Number: 67364
ISBN: 9814032875
Publisher: Raffles, Singapore 2000.
8vo. softcover. 245pp. index, b/w illus., maps. Very good, owner's inscription on title page.
Price: $25.00

HMAS Sydney
Frame, Tom
Book Number: 65925
ISBN: 9780733623639
Publisher: Hachette Australia, Sydney, 2008.
8vo softcover 411pp index, b/w illus. very good, light foxing to edges, small crease on cover.
Price: $10.00

Secret Army: An Elite Force, a Secret Mission, a Fleet of Model-T Fords, a Far Flung Corner of WWI
Stone, Barry
Book Number: 67318
ISBN: 9781760290689
Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2017
8vo. softcover. 228pp. index, b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $12.00

Bombing Colours : RAF Bombers, their Markings & Operations 1937-1973
Bowyer, Michael J. F.
Book Number: 67153
ISBN: 0850591287
Publisher: Patrick Stephens Ltd., 1973. First edition.
8vo. hardcover. 284pp. b/w illus. Very good, light foxing to endpapers. / Good d/w with laminate lifting along front of spine.
Price: $25.00

Tunneling Explosive Compounds and Rock Drills.
Drinker, Henry S.
Book Number: 67124
ISBN:
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, New York, 1878.
4to. half leather. 1031pp. b/w illus. Folding illus. Poor condition, both covers detached, some folding pages creased and frayed on edges, endpapers & prelims chipped on edges, page edges browned.
Price: $500.00

The Desert Mounted Corps: An account of the cavalry operations in Palestine and Syria 1917-1918.
Preston, R. M. P.
Book Number: 67121
ISBN:
Publisher: Constable, London, 1921.
8vo. hardcover. 355pp. index, b/w plates, folding map. Fair, insect damage to cover, missing fep. Hinges cracked (binding still tight), foxing, label on half-title.
Price: $75.00

Stoker's Submarine: Australia's daring raid on the Dardenelles on the day of the Gallipoli landing
Brenchley, Fred
Book Number: 61452
ISBN: 073226703X
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers 2001.
8vo softcover 304pp Good+. On 25 April 1915-the day the Anzacs landed at Gallipoli-Lieutenant Stoker set out as captain of the Australian submarine AE2 on a mission to breach the treacherous Dardanelles Strait with the intention of disrupting Turkish supply lines to the isolated Gallipoli peninsula. Facing dangerous currents, mines and withering enemy fire, Stoker and his men succeeded where British and French submarines had come to grief. Essentially a story in two parts, we follow the AE2 and its crew as they complete daring feats and then as they are attacked and captured as Prisoners of War. We then meet up with the AE2 in the late 1990's when it is found lying intact on the floor of the Sea of Marmara and is finally celebrated, after so many years forgotten, as the most tangible relic of Australia's role at Gallipoli.
Price: $8.00

Australian Code Breakers
Phelps, James
Book Number: 67070
ISBN: 9781460756225
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia, 2020
8vo. softcover. 342pp. b/w illus. Near Fine.
Price: $18.00

CORTES
Johnson, William Weber
Book Number: 3789
ISBN:
Publisher: London, Hutchinson 1977.
London, Hutchinson 1977. Cloth. 8to. 238pp. Inc. index. Endmaps. Frontispiece. Very good/ very good d/w.
Price: $8.00

World War II In Photographs
Holmes, Richard
Book Number: 67045
ISBN: 1741508118
Publisher: Funtastic Ltd, Rowville Australia, 2000
4to. hardcover. 400pp. index, b/w photographs. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

Bean's Gallipoli : The Diaries of Australia's Official War Correspondent
Fewster, Kevin
Book Number: 67042
ISBN: 9781741750881
Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 2007.
8vo. hardcover. 292pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, corner of two pages creased, light rubbing at bottom of spine. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $15.00

Warrior of Kokoda. A biography of Brigadier Arnold Potts
Edgar, Bill
Book Number: 67031
ISBN: 1864489081
Publisher: Australian Military History Publications, Sydney, 2006.
8vo. hardcover. 324pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, light toning to page edges. / Very good d/w.
Price: $30.00

Monash & Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history
Perry, Roland
Book Number: 67025
ISBN: 9781760291433
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia 2017.
8vo. softcover. 567pp. index, b/w plates. Very good+.
Price: $18.00

A Parting Shot: Shelling of Australia by Japanese Submarines.
Jones, Terry; Carruthers, Steven.
Book Number: 67027
ISBN: 9780977506347
Publisher: Casper Publications, Narrabeen NSW, 2013
8vo. softcover. 319pp. b/w illus., colour plates. Near Fine.
Price: $35.00

Gona's Gone!: The Battle for the Beach-head 1942
Brune, Peter
Book Number: 67029
ISBN: 1863736379
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia 1994
8vo. softcover. 129pp. index, b/w plates. Very good, presentation pastedown on fep.
Price: $22.00

The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare 1898?1945 (Studies in Naval History and Sea Power)
Nasca, David S.
Book Number: 67026
ISBN: 9781682475041
Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 2020.
8vo. hardcover. 338pp. index, b/w plates. Fine./ Fine d/w.
Price: $45.00

Lavarack: Rival General
Lodge, Brett
Book Number: 67028
ISBN: 1864485079
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia 1998.
8vo. softcover. 339pp. index, b/w illus., maps. Very good.
Price: $33.00

Weary: King of the River Ebury, Sue
Ebury, Sue
Book Number: 67008
ISBN: 9780522856965
Publisher: Miegunyah Press, University of Melbourne Press, Melbourne 2009
8vo. hardcover. 431pp. index, b/w illus. Very good+, / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $22.00

Fortress Malta: An Island under Siege, 1940-43
Holland, James
Book Number: 67015
ISBN: 1401351867
Publisher: Miramax Books, New York 2003.
8vo. hardcover. 479pp. index, b/w plates. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $55.00

Kokoda Commander, A Life of Major-General 'Tubby' Allen
Braga, Stuart
Book Number: 67001
ISBN: 0195516389
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Melbourne 2004.
8vo. hardcover. 374pp. index, b/w plates. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $90.00

The Secret Wireless War: The Story of MI6 Communications 1939-1945
Pidgeon, Geoffrey
Book Number: 66969
ISBN: 1843752522
Publisher: UPSO. London. 2003.
4to. laminated boards, hardcover. 379pp. Very good, a few light spots on prelims. light toning to page edges.
Price: $25.00

The Auschwitz Photographer: Based On The True Story Of Wilhelm Brasse, Prisoner 3444
Onnis, Maurizio & Luca Crippa
Book Number: 66954
ISBN: 9780857527462
Publisher: Penguin UK 2021.
8vo. softcover. 287pp. b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $14.00

Cassell's World History of Warfare: The Global History of Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present Day
Archer, Christon I.; Ferris, John R.; Herwig, Holger H.; Travers, Timothy H. E.
Book Number: 66949
ISBN: 0304363529
Publisher: Cassell, London 2003.
8vo. hardcover. 626pp. index, b/w ilus. Good+, small crease on top corner of some pages. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

William Holmes : The Soldiers' General
Travers, Geoffrey
Book Number: 66953
ISBN: 9781922387004
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing, Newport, NSW, 2020.
8vo. hardcover. 447pp. index, b/w ilus. Near Fine. / Very good d/w.
Price: $20.00

One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps
Pitzer, Andrea
Book Number: 66952
ISBN: 9780316303590
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, New York, 2017.
8vo. hardcover. 466pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, tiny tear on top edge of two pages. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

Remnants from Randwick / compiled by the Committee for the Patients of the 4th A.G. Hospital
Committee for the Patients of the 4th A. G. Hospital. (compiled by)
Book Number: 66905
ISBN:
Publisher: Tyrrell's Limited, 1919.
4to. illustrated boards with cloth spine. 94pp. b/w illus. Good, wear to cover, tiny tear on bottom edge of title page. From trove..."Reissue of Remnants from Randwick. No. 2. Illustration on front cover, by Fred Brown, shows a soldier in bed, sketching."
Price: $125.00

Rhymes and Reminiscences
Nobbs, Captain Gilbert.
Book Number: 66858
ISBN:
Publisher: Oxford Press, Sydney 1922.
Small 8vo. hardcover. 101pp. Good+, flecking to covers, some foxing.
Price: $250.00

Nancy Wake. The story of a very brave woman
Braddon, Russell
Book Number: 66792
ISBN:
Publisher: Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, 1956.
8vo. hardcover. 272pp. index, b/w illus. very good, some foxing. / Very good d/w with some small tears on edges & shipped at top of spine.
Price: $25.00

Mid-Pacific Outposts
Ellis, Sir Albert Itro by J.R. Stevenson
Book Number: 66767
ISBN:
Publisher: Brown and Stewart, Auckland 1946.
8vo. hardcover. 295pp. b/w plates. Good-, wear to cover edges. Pages browned. This copy was presented to P.J. Taylor by John Stevenson. Inscription on title page.
Price: $75.00

Victory at Villers-Bretonneux: Why a French Town Will Never Forget the Anzacs
FitzSimons, Peter.
Book Number: 66738
ISBN: 9781742759524
Publisher: William Heinemann, Sydney 2016
8vo hardcover 764pp, index, b/w illus. very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

Unscathed: Escape from Sierra Leone
Philip, Ashby
Book Number: 66724
ISBN: 0333989210
Publisher: United Kingdom, Macmillan, 2002
8vo hardcover 266pp index, colour illus. very good, foxing to endpapers, light toning to page edges. / Very good d/w. Phil has collected numerous accolades since graduating from Cambridge in 1991. As a Royal Marine, he has been awarded the Commando medal, served as Troop Commander around the globe, served as Captain with the Parachute Regiment in the UK, Norway and Northern Ireland, and, as Major, was posted to Sierra Leone to work with the United Nations as a Military Observer. He has just completed a Masters'' Degree at the Royal Military College of Science.
Price: $12.00

Soldier Five. The real story of the Bravo Two Zero mission
Coburn, Mike
Book Number: 66716
ISBN: 1840188669
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, U.K. 2004.
8vo. hardcover. 316pp. colour & b/w illus. Very good, light toning to page edges. / Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

Bombs and Barbed Wire: My War in the RAF and Stalag Luft III
Willatt, Geoffrey
Book Number: 66707
ISBN: 1898594163
Publisher: Parapress, Kent 1995.
8vo. softcover. 128pp., colour & b/w illus. Good, stain on edge o fep, cover creased, page edges toned.
Price: $30.00

Long Rifle : A Sniper's Story in Iraq and Afghanistan
LeBleu, Joe
Book Number: 66717
ISBN: 9781599214405
Publisher: The Lyons Press, USA 2009.
8vo. softcover. 225pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, light foxing to endpapers, light toning to page edges.
Price: $12.00

Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan
Carew, Tom
Book Number: 66719
ISBN: 1840183268
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, U.K. 2001.
8vo. hardcover. 282pp. colour illus. Good, page edges lightly toned, foxing to endpapers. / Good stained d/w with creased edges.
Price: $12.00

War Dogs. British Mercenaries in Bosnia Tell Their Own story
Cory-Jones, Keith
Book Number: 66708
ISBN: 0712676317
Publisher: Century, London, 1996
8vo. hardcover. 261pp. b/w illus. Good, page edges browned. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

Gunpowder : The History of the Explosive That Changed the World
Kelly, Jack
Book Number: 66673
ISBN: 183541904
Publisher: Atlantic Books, London, 2004.
8vo. hardcover. 260pp. index, b/w illus. Good+, page edges toned. / Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

Victoria Cross Heroes
Ashcroft, Michael
Book Number: 66659
ISBN: 0755316320
Publisher: Headline, London 2006.
8vo. hardcover. 335pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, foxing and toning to page edges. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

The Korean War. Australia in the Giants' Playground.
Forbes, Cameron
Book Number: 66646
ISBN: 9781405040013
Publisher: Australia Macmillan, 2010.
8vo hardcover 534pp index, b/w illus. very good, page edges toned. / very good d/w. The Korean War has never really ended. Although a ceasefire agreement was reached in 1953 after three years of savage warfare, the conflict continues to simmer just below the surface, threatening at any moment to break into full-scale fighting. It makes the Korean peninsula one of the most dangerous flashpoints in the world today. But the war itself has long been called the forgotten war. It was fought at the height of the Cold War, with the forces of the United Nations, led by the US, on the one had against the forces of Communism on the other, led by Mao Tse Tung''s China. Australia was a part of the US-led coalition, and took part in some of the conflict''s most savage fighting. But coming only five years after the end of World War Two, and before the full empowerment of the media that was to take place during the Vietnam War, what happened in Korea during those three long years has been largely overlooked by the public. Cameron Forbes tells the story of the war and Australia''s involvement in it in a riveting narrative. From the letters and diaries of those diggers who fought across Korea''s unforgiving hills and mountains to the grand strategies formulated in Washington, Moscow and Beijing, The Korean War reveals the conflict on all its levels - human, military and geopolitical.About the AuthornnCameron Forbes is the author of Hellfire.
Price: $18.00

Jum's War : Finding My Father William
Bevan, George
Book Number: 66653
ISBN: 9781921208379
Publisher: Murdoch Books, Australia, 2007.
8vo. softcover. 420pp. Very good.
Price: $12.00

Chester Wilmot Reports. Broadcasts That Shaped World War II
McDonald, Neil. [Wilmot, Chester]
Book Number: 66589
ISBN: 0733314414
Publisher: ABC Books, Sydney, 2004
8vo. hardcover. 401pp. index. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w. Inscribed & signed by author on title page.
Price: $18.00

Growing into War
Gill, Michael
Book Number: 66500
ISBN: 0750942851
Publisher: Sutton, Great Britain, 2005.
8vo. hardcover. 308pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

Voices of War : Stories from the Australians at War Film Archive
Caulfield, Michael (Editor)
Book Number: 62457
ISBN: 0733620507
Publisher: Hodder, Australia, 2006.
8vo. hardcover. 541pp. index. Near Fine. / Near Fine d/w.
Price: $12.00

World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West
Rees, Laurence
Book Number: 66400
ISBN: 9780563493358
Publisher: BBC Books, 2008.
8vo. hardcover. 442pp. index, b/w illus. Good+, page edges toned. / Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

RIVIERA TO THE RHINE. US Army In World War II. The European Theater
Clarke, Jeffrey J. & Robert Ross Smith
Book Number: 66403
ISBN:
Publisher: Center of Military History United States Army., Washington, 1993.
8vo. laminated boards, hardcover. 605pp. index, b/w illus., maps. Good, top page edges wavy.
Price: $20.00

Zero Footprint. The true story of a private contractor's secret wars
Chase, Simon
Book Number: 66407
ISBN: 9780751564709
Publisher: Sphere, London, 2016
8vo. softcover. 297pp. index. Good+, toning & foxing to edges.
Price: $12.00

Marching to the Sound of Gunfire
Delaforce, Patrick
Book Number: 66401
ISBN: 0753703793
Publisher: Sutton Publishing, U.K. 1996.
8vo hardcover 218pp index, b/w illus, maps. very good, slight wave to top page edges, light toning to page edges. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

Fighting Isis: How One Brit Went To War A Gripping True Story
Locks, Tim
Book Number: 66406
ISBN: 9780283072680
Publisher: Sidgwick And Jackson, London, 2016
8vo. softcover. 300pp. colour illus. Good+, foxing and tonog to edges.
Price: $12.00