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Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1946. 8vo; pp. xx, 296; endpaper maps, portrait frontispiece, 4 full-page photographs, 26 full-page plates of drawings, 5 maps; original cloth. A very good copy. . First edition.

Melbourne: Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1946. xix, 296pp, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or green cloth in facsimile jacket. Light even toning to page edges. Author was a colonel in AIF 8th Australian Division.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Facsimile Jacket. 8vo.

Melbourne, Oxford University Press, reprinted October (1946).. 8vo; pp. xx, 296; endpaper maps, portrait frontispiece, 4 full-page photographs, 26 full-page plates of drawings, 5 maps; original cloth in chipped dustwrapper. A very copy. . Presentation card from author.

Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1946. Hardcover. Good. Original red rexine, map on endpapers, b/w plates, 8vo.; Small damage top front cover.

Oxford University Press,, [1946]. 8vo., Second Impression, with a portrait frontispiece, 30 plates, 5 full-page maps, a full-page facsimile in the text and coloured endpaper maps; cloth, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. WITH THE PRIZE BOOKPLATE OF HM DOCKYARD SCHOOL CHATHAM SIGNED BY ADMIRAL MIDDLETON.Published two months after the first edition, this second impression is testament to the immediate success of this work which remains perhaps the outstanding literary achievement and curiosity of Australia's war against the Japanese. It contains some fifty thousand words of verse, written initially as a mental exercise, and preserved on twenty small sheets of paper (the facsimile gives an idea of the literary compression required) and smuggled from camp to camp (and country to country) under horrifying circumstances. The author, who was captured as a colonel AIF serving with 8 Australian Division was also a Rhodes Scholar and an Olympic… Read More