Sydney: Collins, 1978. 320pp. Or blue cloth in jacket. Top and fore-edge foxed, endpapers lightly foxed. Spine somewhat faded. SIGNED and iscribed (To xxx with best wishes Alan Stretton) on front free endpaper. Autobiography of an Australian soldier who rose through the ranks from Private to Major-General training at Duntroon, serving in Balikpan, Borneo, Koreaa and Vietnam, and leading the relief operations in Darwin after Cyclone Tracy.. Signed & Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

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Bookseller: Lawrence Jones (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 021139
Title: Soldier in a Storm. An Autobiography
Author: Stretton, Alan
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 000216406X
ISBN 13: 9780002164061
Publisher: Collins
Place of Publication: Sydney
Date Published: 1978
Keywords: Australian Military Autobiography Biography Soldier Darwin Cyclone Tracy Duntroon Balikpan Korea Malaya Vietnam Signed
Bookseller catalogs: Australiana & NZ; Biography; Militaria;

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