‎War‎

‎Johnston Mark‎

‎The Proud 6th. An Illustrated History of the 6th Australian Division 1939-1946‎

‎Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008. Small Quarto Size approx 19x25cm. Fine condition in a Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Appendices include 6th Division Casulaties & 6th Division Honours and Awards. Bibliography. Index. 269 pages. Part of the Australian Army History Series. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . As New. 1st Edition. Hardback. Cambridge University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BIB330206 ISBN : 0521514118 9780521514118

‎[Civil War – Union Army] Unknown Artist‎

‎Portrait of a Young Union Army Soldier‎

‎United States N.d. Overpainted albumen photograph measuring approximately 6 ¾ x 8 ½ inches mounted on heavy cardstock. Slight marginal wear; excellent to Near Fine. An overpainted albumen photograph portrait of an unknown Union Army soldier who appears to be quite young dressed in Union fatigues. Though boys under 18 were not supposed to be able to enlist many did so anyway with some estimating that around 200000 underage boys joined the Union Army all told.1 Despite General Order 73 which ordered that “no discharges will be granted to volunteers . on the grounds of minority†so many families tried to get their underaged sons back from the Army that the New York Times called it an “epidemicâ€2. Nonetheless the brave child drummer boy or soldier became an iconic image of the Union cause.1<br /> <br /> 1 Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plante “Why the Union Army Had So Many Boy Soldiers†Smithsonian Magazine January 17 2023 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-the-union-army-had-so-many-boy-soldiers-180981458/.<br /> 2 “The Plea of Infancy an Epidemic†The New York Times August 27 1861 3. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : List3122

‎[World War II – Germany – Nazism] Bliwernitz, Annemarie‎

‎Looking Back. A World War II Memoir by Annemarie Bliwernitz‎

‎St. Petersburg Florida: unpublished 1974. Ninety-four typed and photocopied pages measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches in a soft binding. Binding with wear; pages generally excellent to Near Fine. Overall excellent to Near Fine. Annemarie Bliwernitz 1905–2005 née Entz was born in Notzendorf East Prussia. In 1952 after surviving both World Wars she and her husband Bruno 1900–1992 immigrated first to Canada and then to the United States. Offered here is Annemarie’s unpublished memoir written between 1972 and 1974.<br /> <br /> Bliwernitz grew up in a wealthy land-owning country family which she remembers lived far west enough that they did not have to flee the Russians during World War I and was less affected by the postwar economic situation than were city residents. Most of the memoir is taken up by Bliwernitz’s remembrances of World War II and life leading up to it. Of Hitler’s rise she writes:<br /> <br /> “During these years conditions got worse in Germany . A new name came up ‘Adolf Hitler.’ – It was not hard for him to find followers now by the thousands and soon by the millions. He dared to stand up against the Communists with his brown uniformed S.A. men and a new wind seemed to blow over our illfated land. No wonder young people looked up to him and followed the new star nobody had much to lose. . Bruno and brother-in-law Willy after some meetings attended showed up in the new brown uniform also and farmers and laborers seemed to be united in that new idea. – It really changed Germany in a short time nobody could deny that unemployment ceased people got jobs again and housewives and mothers could buy the necessities of life for their families especially food. And it brought us to our feet again also.â€<br /> <br /> Though of course Bliwernitz maintains that the “Concentration Camps and what happened in them was not known to the German people" she mentions that Bruno quickly became an Arbeitsdienstführer—essentially a labor camp overseer—and remembers dissenters being disappeared:<br /> <br /> “As an example I will tell about Bruno’s oldest brother Alfred. He was all against Hitler from the beginning. One day he came home and picked up his neighbor’s paper at his frontdoor and wrote his ideas about Hitler and his lies down with pencil. This neighbor reported him they picked him up and that was the last his family saw of him. They were told ½ year later that he had died in Stuhm West Prussia a Concentration Camp. No explanation to his wife whatsoever. The same destiny happened to my co-worker a highly educated person at the Translation Office. She said in the lavatory where many ladies could hear: Hitler’s big picture in the office should be placed here in the toilet-rooms where it belongs. One of the ‘kind’ co-workers reported her and she came next day only to pick up her belongings and was not seen any more.â€<br /> <br /> While Bruno is sent to the Eastern Front Bliwernitz and their children flee the Russians trying to reach the Americans on the Western Front. Along the way they encounter deserting German soldiers and near Hamburg liberated camp inmates:<br /> <br /> “Shooting started close to us and we heard bombs exploding would we be hit We found out that the Concentration Camp near us had been opened and those freed inmates had shot their guardians. At daybreak we met the first one still in his black and white striped prison-suit kneeling on the ground by the chicken-coop and with his both hands feeding himself out of the bowl with the chicken food. . They came to us begging for a little bit of salt to cook the horse-meat they had cut out of the dead horses lying along the ditches . We talked to them and I remember one told me he was imprisoned because of his religion not to go to any war. He was from Elbing where I had gone to school as a young girl.â€<br /> <br /> The family are reunited with Bruno and shortly before they surrender to the Americans they destroy the evidence of their party involvement: “Bruno’s N.S.D.A.P. membership-card my certificate for the ‘mother’s cross’ the passports of Horst and Juergen showing that they had been students of the Nazi-school in Stuhm etc.†After the German surrender the family is sent back east where they struggle to avoid starvation then return west where they are sent to live in Hardegsen. They finally decide in 1951 to emigrate as life in postwar Germany is simply too difficult but make the mistake of being honest about their history:<br /> <br /> “Another big obstacle for us was that Bruno had been in a member in a Nazi-party though not an active one. But it was still a handicap in those days for any undertaking. We had not kept it secret in our immigration papers and they wanted a detailed description about our political involvement. That we did wrote a long letter in German didn’t have the money for an interpreter and never got an answer. . That was a bitter pill to swallow.â€<br /> <br /> After this they decide to try for Canada instead and this time savvily “didn’t mention any Nazi-party attachmentâ€. This is a success; the family moves to Winnipeg and eventually to St. Petersburg Florida where the narrative was written. Bliwernitz recalls working as a housekeeper which she contrasts with her previous life in which she and her family would not allow maids farm hands or tradesmen to eat at their table with them.<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of the German civilian experience during the Second World War especially that of women and children. unpublished unknown‎

Bookseller reference : List3157

‎Ball, Reg A.‎

‎Torres Strait Force. Cape York. Thursday Island. Merauke. 1942-1945.‎

‎Sydney: Australian Military History Publications. 1996. HEAVY. xv 301pp index bibliography bw ills maps. Pictorial glossy boards. The bottom corner of the rear board has been bent. Prev owner bookplate on front free endpaper light foxing to page edges. Includes infantry machine gunners artillery engineers RAAF medical ordinance signals and more including US units that served in the region. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Folio. Australian Military History Publications. Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 055578 ISBN : 0646207490 9780646207490

‎MacLeod, Donald J‎

‎Survival Against the Odds the Story of Petty Officer Donald MacKinnon Russian Convoy Survivor‎

‎<p>Aberdeen: Loch Roag Books 2000. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of front cover otherwise a good clean tight copy with no creasing to the spine of this soft-cover book. Deals with the Wartime service of Donald MacKinnon from Harris. He served in the Royal Navy throughout WW2 having joined the RNR in 1939. He saw action at Narvik the Normandy landings and on the Murmansk convoys where his ship HMS Lapwing was torpedoed in March 1945. 99pp some b&w illustrations. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.</p> Loch Roag Books paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 013643 ISBN : 0953808009 9780953808007

‎Roberts, Andrew‎

‎Elegy. The First Day on The Somme‎

‎London: Head of Zeus. 2015. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. 291 pages. The author evokes the pity and horror of 1 July 1916 the first day on The Somme with a masterly grasp of the military realities that led to such a disaster. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback. Head of Zeus hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BIB330532 ISBN : 1784080012 9781784080013

‎Brecher,Gary (The War Nerd)‎

‎HAZAÑAS Y CHAPUZAS BÉLICAS 1ª Edición‎

‎Los Libros del Lince . Nuevo. 2008tapa blanda con solapas.1ª Edición.SINOPSIS:Hazañas y chapuzas bélicas es una delirante minienciclopedia de la guerra que no deja títere con cabeza. Un libro brutal que se caracteriza por la agudeza de sus análisis el despiadado humor de su enfoque y la escatología de su lenguaje. Con ese bagaje el peculiar autor pasa revista a las escasas hazañas y las infinitas chapuzas de los conflictos ocurridos durante más de un siglo en cuatro continentes combinando la documentación exhaustiva con el tono más corrosivo irreverente y ácrata. No hay guerra por remota que sea que escape a su feroz disección. No hay tópico militar por muy consagrado que esté que esquive su desenfrenada capacidad destructiva. No hay incidente desde la invasión de Iraq hasta la conquista de Perejil ni héroe universal de Wellington a Pancho Villa que se resista a su espíritu gamberro. En sus escasos años como columnista en exile Gary Brecher ha conseguido una inmensa fama entre los internautas. No en vano es el más divertido inteligente salvaje y políticamente incorrecto experto militar de la historia. Primera edición. Sellado por el anterior propietario. Los Libros del Lince unknown‎

Bookseller reference : LV100013 ISBN : 8493653616 9788493653613

‎Silver, Lynette Ramsay.‎

‎Sandakan. A Conspiracy of Silence.‎

‎Burra Creek NSW: Sally Milner 1998. 384pp index endnotes appendices inc bibliography nominal roll bw ills maps. Card covers. Slightest of edge wear to covers small crease to top front corner brief gift note on title page. At the end of the Second World War the remaining prisoners of war held by the Japanese at Sandokan in Sabah Malaysia were massacred- of 2234 incarcerated only 6 survived- all escapees. Through painstaking research and interviews with survivors the author has pieced together this remarkable and horifying account of the lives and ultimate fate of Sandakan POWs and the reasons they and their story became WWIIs most deadly secret. First Trade Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Sally Milner Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 055184 ISBN : 1863512233 9781863512237

‎Pinney Peter‎

‎The Barbarians: A Soldier's New Guinea Diary‎

‎St. Lucia Qld: University of Queensland Press 1988. x 240pp 3 maps. Pictorial card cover. Toning and foxing to page edges and prelims.This is the first volume of the author's trilogy of Johnno's war diaries. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. University of Queensland Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 055271 ISBN : 0702221589 9780702221583

‎[Kentucky]. [War of 1812]. [Franklin, John]‎

‎Deed of Conveyance for Services Rendered During the War of 1812 in Kentucky‎

‎Warren Co. Ky 1817. Good. 2pp. Old mailing folds almost completely separated along vertical fold slight loss at crossfolds. A unique document pertaining to a Kentuckian's service in the War of 1812. The text reads in most part: "I John Franklin of the County of Warren and State of Kentucky Do Hear by Constitute and appoint and I do nominate & constitute by this presents do appoint Henry Small of the County and State also said my true and Lawfull attorney and for me and in my name to make a Deed of Coveyance to all of the Land drawn or to be Drawn from the United States for my service during the late war with Grate Briton for all titleables or parsilles of Land that may be granted to me my ear heirs or assigns. I pair the dates of the following discharge bearing interest on the 7th day of November in the year 1814 and discharged on the 14th day of April 1815. I do hereby rattify the act of my said attorney this 2nd day of March 1817. John Franklin his mark." The verso contains a nine-line attestation by the clerk of Warren County certifying the letter. A rare primary source record documenting a Kentucky man's service in the War of 1812. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 5882

‎Gilbert, Martin.‎

‎The Boys. Triumph Over Adversity. The Story of 723 Young Concentration Camp Survivors.‎

‎London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1996. xv 511pp index glossary maps bw ills. Maroon cloth in jacket. Near new. When Britain declared itself willing to take in 1000 young survivors of the Holocaust no more than 732 could be found. The author brings together the recolelctions of this remarkable group. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 054855 ISBN : 0297816381 9780297816386

‎Philippines. World War II. Anunciacion Fortunato‎

‎Archive of Documents Concerning the American Army Service of Fortunato Anunciacion in the Philippines During World War II‎

‎Bamban and other locations in the Philippines 1971. Fair. Thirty typed or mimeographed documents totaling thirty-four pages. Old folds creasing and fraying. Noticeable wear and chipping to edges with occasional loss to content along the bottom margins. A fascinating collection of documents relating to the military service of a Filipino soldier serving with the United States Army during the Second World War. Fortunato V. Anunciacion was born in Angeles Pampanga the Philippines on February 27 1915. As early as 1935 Anunciacion was working with the United States Army as a corporal in the guerilla forces as a scout and also in a medical regiment as a dental technician. He was made captain in 1942 and thereafter served as the commanding officer of the Bamban Battalion of "Bruce's Guerillas" working with the American Army during the Japanese occupation of the islands during the Second World War. Following the war in 1946 Anunciacion worked briefly as a "Philippine Scout" for the U.S. Army.<br /> <br /> The documents present here pertain mostly to Anunciacion's time with Bruce's Guerillas or the aftermath of his service and include letters discussing his appointments roster lists of Anunciacion's commands documents relating to the service of Bruce's Guerillas copies of discharge documents affidavits from Anunciacion and other soldiers regarding his military service letters concerning his pension and more. Since he was a commanding officer many of the documents were signed by Anunciacion. One of the documents from 1945 describes some of Anunciacion's guerilla activities which included "obtaining information regarding Jap activities" and capturing a Japanese spy and then killing him when he refused to give his name. Another document from 1945 a tactical roster of riflemen in the Bamban guerillas filled out and signed by Anunciacion his remarks at the end provide a glimpse into his personality: "The above are bona fide officers and enlisted men of Company 'C' Squadron 101 Bamban Bn unattached and unrecognized but operated independently side by side with different American Divisions in mopping up operation against the Japanese at Bamban area province of Tarlac during the liberation. This unit performed intelligence and sabotage work in the same area during the whole period of the Japanese occupation." The later documents provide information on Anunciacion's efforts to seek back pay Social Security and disability benefits as a "recognized guerilla" and further background on Anunciacion's service through a couple of testimonials by his junior officers. The collection is rounded out by an official copy of his discharge certificate and Anunciacion's membership certificate into the Luzon Guerilla Forces Veterans Association based in Manila. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 5625

‎Baker, Kevin.‎

‎Paul Cullen. Citizen and Soldier.the Life and Times of Major General Paul Cullen AC CBE DSO and Bar ED FCA.‎

‎Sydney: Rosenberg 2005. 224pp index appendix bw ills maps. Pictorial card. Tiny black dot to bottom edge. Biography of Major General Paul Cullen who emerged from WWII acknowledged as one of Australia's best performed and most highly decorated infantry commanders. He served in Egypt Libya Greece the Battle of Pinos Gorge the Kokoda Track and Sananda. After the war he made contributions to the refugee cause and was recognized by the UN for this work in 1981. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo. Rosenberg Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 054627 ISBN : 1877058289 9781877058288

‎Harding Stephen.‎

‎The Dawn of Infamy. A Sunken Ship a Vanished Crew and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor.‎

‎New York: Da Capo Press 2016. 249pp index bibliography notes bw ills. Boards in jacket. As new. Review copy with loosely inserted publisher's letter. As Pearl Harbor was under attack the small American cargo ship Cynthia Olson reported it was under attack by a submarine halfway between Seattle and Honolulu. Was the Cynthia Olson the first American casualty of the Pacific war. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Da Capo Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 054668 ISBN : 0306825031 9780306825033

‎Rees, Peter.‎

‎The Missing Man. From the Outback to Tarakan the Powerful Story of Len Waters Australia's first Aboriginal Fighter Pilot.‎

‎Sydney: Allen & Unwin Australia 2018. xii 348pp index bibliography notes bw ills. Pictorial card. Minro edge wear to cover. Len Waters a Kamiliroi man left school at 13 and by 20 was piloting a RAAF Kittyhawk fighter with 78 Squadron in the Pacific. After the war he became a 'missing man' in Australia's wartime flying history. Third Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Allen & Unwin Australia Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 054445 ISBN : 1760296414 9781760296414

‎Ford, Ken‎

‎El Alamein 1942: The Turning of the Tide. Campaign 158‎

‎New York: Osprey Publishing 2008. 96pp index bibliography bw & col ills. Near new copy. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the battle that turned the tide in favour of the Allies in Africa. Reprint. Soft Cover. Fine. Illus. by Howard Gerrard. 4to. Osprey Publishing Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 054082 ISBN : 1841768677 9781841768670

‎Challinger, Michael‎

‎Anzacs in Arkhangel: The Untold Story of Australia and the Invasion of Russia 1918-19‎

‎Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books 2010. xvii 285pp b/w ills maps two appendices: Citations Nominal roll bibliography index. Trade paperback. Near new.The book uncovers the exploits and achievements of more than 100 Australian volunteers who joined a relief force to extricate members of a secret mission sent to northern Russia in 1918 to prevent military stores from falling into Russian hands. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Hardie Grant Books Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 054094 ISBN : 1740667514 9781740667517

‎Maitland, Gordon L. (Major General)‎

‎The Second World War and its Australian Army Battle Honours‎

‎Sydney: Kangaroo Press. 1999. Small Quarto Size approx 17.5cm x 24cm. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A very nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps xvi 160 pages. This book provides a concise history of World War II while telling the stories of the hundred-odd 'honoured' battles in which Australian soldiers fought along with a register of the battle honours and of the units which received them. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Kangaroo Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BIB325780 ISBN : 0864179758 9780864179753

‎Mount Batten Betty J.‎

‎From Blue to Khaki.‎

‎Australia: The Author 1995. xvi 280pp index bibliography appendices honours/awards bw ills several errata slips amended index and another related article loosely inserted. Pictorial card. Near new. The enlisted voluntary aids and others who became members of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service and served from 1941-1951. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. The Author Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 053359 ISBN : 0646255266 9780646255262

‎Jones, AE. (Ted) A. E.‎

‎Sailor & Commando. A Royal Australian Navy special Service Beach Commando 1942-1946.‎

‎Perth: Hesperian Press 1998. ix 173pp appendices bw ills. Pictorial card. Light edge weat to cover prev owner name on title page. One of just 120 young RAN sailor's trained at a secret base in NSW during the early days of WWII to become a Special Service Beach Commando the author saw service in the Netherlands east Indies and Borneo with the Australian and American army. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Hesperian Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 052994 ISBN : 0859052532 9780859052535

‎Libro Grande Guerra, Gruppo‎

‎Gli intellettuali e la Grande Guerra - Scrittori artisti politici italiani nella Prima guerra mondiale tra interventismo e opposizione - VOLUME 1 Italian Edition‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1326777947.G ISBN : 1326777947 9781326777944

‎Grover, John.‎

‎Maker and Breaker. The Story of an Engineer Officer. 1939-1945.‎

‎Sydney: Australian Military History Publications. 2008. x 228pp index glossary bw ills. Pictorial glossy boards. As new. Autobiographical account of an Australian Army Engineer Corps officer who served in Lebanon Syria and New Guinea serving with 2/1 and 2/14 Field Companies. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Small 4to. Australian Military History Publications. Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 051057 ISBN : 0980320437 9780980320435

‎Fitzsimons, Peter‎

‎Tobruk‎

‎Pymble NSW Australia: Harper Collins Publishers 2006. Book. Fair to Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with light blue boards and pictorial dust jacket reprint 1005gms 580 pages illustrated endpapers. This book focuses on The Battle of Tobruk in 1941 in which more than 15000 Australian troops - backed by British artillery - fought an excruciating desert heat through eight long months against Adolf Hitler's formidable Afrika Korps. Book is in fair to good condition with minor general wear and tear and moderate page discolouration/spotting throughout. Edges of pages show some minor soiling. Boards and dust jacket are in fair to good condition with moderate scuffing chipping and a few small tears otherwise no other pre-loved marks. Harper Collins Publishers Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : WARTWO691 ISBN : 0732276454 9780732276454

‎US. Army War College U. S.‎

‎Buford at Gettysburg U.S. Civil War Series‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1511729295.G ISBN : 1511729295 9781511729291

‎Anderson, Thomas.‎

‎Tiger.‎

‎Oxford: Osprey Publishing 2013. 256pp index num bw ills. Pictorial card with integral flaps. As new. The German Tiger tank which dominated many tank battles on the Eastern Front throughout North Africa in Italy and in the defence of the Fatherland.The author uses original German archive material interviews with surviving veterans and previously unpublished images to reveal its full history. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Small 4to. Osprey Publishing Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 050235 ISBN : 1472822048 9781472822048