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The Kangaroo Heads South: Midshipman Cruise Alfa – USS Canberra – June 8 to August 6, 1957
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCanberra (Guided missile heavy cruiser : CAG-2)
Norfolk: Tidewater Offset Printing Service, [1957].Being a Pictorial Voyage of the Kan-Do Kangaroo, on a Midshipman Training Cruise from the US east coast to South America and back. A cruiser of the United States Navy named to honour the Australian cruiser HMAS Canberra sunk during the Battle of Savo Island. The first USN warship named after a foreign capital city. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the crew and illustrations of kangaroos. A ship tune, ‘sail on, Canberra’, sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda. Inscribed by a US Navy Captain to the front cover. 1 copy in OCLC at the United States Naval Academy.
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Crimean Campaigning and Russian Imprisonment
AU$2,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOne of the Six Hundred; [Robert Stuart Farquharson]
Dundee: W. & D. C. Thomson, 1889.A unique association copy of this rare account of one of the most famous battles in British military history from the point of view of a non commanding officer together with his experiences in Russian captivity and his eventual release. Robert Stuart Farquharson (1832-1892) provides a highly detailed account of his participation in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade, October 25th, 1854, at the Battle of Balaclava, during the Crimean War, and his subsequent capture and imprisonment by the Russians. This copy inscribed on the front flyleaf to the author’s sister (Marion Farquharson) together with 3 pieces of ephemera: 1. The author’s ticket to the dinner commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the Charge to be held at the Aquarium Westminster on Saturday the 25th October, 1884; 2. A newspaper cutting dated May 18th, 1892, mounted on card bearing the emblem of the East Lothian & Berwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry and with several date annotations in another hand and also bearing Farquharson’s signature, the clipping giving details of a testimonial dinner for Farquharson at The Royal Hotel upon his retirement from the bandmastership of the Lothians and Berwickshire Cavalry; 3. A flyer with press reviews of the book. An earlier edition was private printed for the author by Thomas Allan in 1883. This is the first trade edition with no other printings to date.
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Australia’s Fighting Sons of the Empire: Portraits and Biographies of Australians in the Great War
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Palmer & Ashworth]
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2014.“This difficult to obtain book was first published in 1922 [by Palmer & Ashworth] after a troubled gestation. Many of the original copies have disintegrated due to binding problems. It is now available again in an attractive facsimile edition. Contains over 1450 biographies and illustrations of the soldiers. This is a book that will become a family heirloom.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Collection of Pictures on Japanese Military Germ Warfare
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJin Chengmin
Hulunbuir: Inner Mongolia Culture Press, 2010.Photographs and details on Japan’s chemical warfare Unit 731.
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Hospital Ships
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRupert Goodman
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2016.Foreword by B. T. Treloar, AO, Rear Admiral RAN (Rtd).
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The Clausewitz Casyndekan
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCasyndekan, Inc.
Colorado Springs: Casyndekan, Inc., 1969.A conceptual index of ‘On War’ by Karl Maria von Clausewitz to quickly identify relevant passages from the text related to a reader’s conceptual inquiry.