Avonmore books adelaide (49 risultati)

Softcover. 1st Edition. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very good condition. Colour and black & white illustrations. Colour and black and white photographs. Colour maps. 201 pages. A look at six of Australia's naval heroes - Waller, Farncomb, Rankin, Dechaineux, Collins & Sheean. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. …

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 201pp, index, references, num bw & some col ills, glossary. Pictorial card. Crease/slight damage to bottom front corner, otherwise only light edge wear to cover. In the 1990s the RAN broke with tradition and named 6 submarines after 6 naval heroes. This book shows the depths of their achievements: Capt. Hec Waller; Emile Dechaineux; Hal Farncomb; John Collins; Teddy Sheean & Robert Rankin. Size: Small 4to. …

Softcover. Condizione: New. Revised Edition. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. B/W Map. This edition focusses on the Lake Boga-specific material and omits from the original edition the Chapter 1 [covered the 1939-1941 period prior to the establishment of No 1 FBRD in 1942] and the Epilogue [covered activities after 1947 and mainly pertaining to the post-war fates of the various aircraft and associated personnel]. 78 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 112 pages. This volume illustrates, by squadron, USAAF Fifth Air Force A-20 series medium bombers operating in New Guinea from July 1942 to the end of 1944. …

Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Colour maps Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 108 pages. Over several months in 1942, the 49th Fighter Group pilots fought a brave and innovative campaign against a stronger enemy that did much to safeguard Australia in its darkest hour. This is their story.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 120 pages. Covers a dozen USAAF aircraft and Thirteenth Air Force squadrons which operated the Bell P-39 and P-400 Airacobra.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Colour and black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 317 pages. Teddy Sheean was part of the evacuation of his warship, the corvette Armidale sinking fast while around it swarmed Japanese aircraft, shooting with abandon. Teddy turned back to his gun, an Oerlikon 20mm anti-aircraft cannon with a broad leather strap to secure the gunner. He began firing. a courageous Tasmanian determined to do his best to save his mates and his ship. He should have received a VC. Also compares the bravery of Sheean with other Australian naval heroes who should have been decorated with the Victoria Cross. Reveals that the RAN was proud of the âArmidaleâ and her fight and did not cover up her lost.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 120 pages. The most accurate colour profiles to date of Japanese Navy land-based Zero fighters in the "South Seas" theatre.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. 120 pages. This volume focuses on the US Navy, US Marine Corps and RNZAF squadrons which operated land-based F4U series Corsair fighters throughout the Solomons from 1943 onwards. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. Reprint. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 111 pages. The volume conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the South Pacific. chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 108 pages. This volume conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the Solomons theatre, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 101 pages. This volume conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the South Pacific, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 107 pages. This volume conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the South Pacific. chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. 120 pages. This volume covers two British designed types that served with the RAAF in large numbers. A combined total of some 1280 Beauforts and Beaufighters were delivered and served with fifteen wartime squadrons plus a variety of training and support units. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Claringbould, Michael (illustratore).…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. 124pages. This volume covers the B-17E/F series which served in Australia, New Guinea and the Solomons. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. …

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour & Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. 108 pages. Deals with the P-40 Warhawk series, which served with a dozen USAAF Fifth and Thirteenth Air Force fighter and reconnaissance squadrons, service units, combat replacement pools and other miscellaneous units. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. 104 pages. This volume covers the B-26 and US Navy JM Marauder series which served in Australia, New Guinea and the Solomons. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour & Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. 108 pages. Deals with the P-51 and F-6 Mustang series which served in New Guinea, the Philippines and then the Japanese islands, serving with a total of ten USAAF Fifth Air Force fighter and reconnaissance squadrons. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour & Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. 108 pages. Deals with the P-38 and variants including the photo-reconnaissance F-4 and F-5, along with field-modified P-38G night fighters. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour & Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. 124 pages. Deals with the P-38 and variants including the photo-reconnaissance F-4 and F-5, along with field-modified P-38G night fighters. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 124 pages. Deals with Japanese Navy floatplanes which served in the South Pacific.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 18x24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Colour drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 96 pages. This volume covers American night fighters that served throughout the Solomons, New Guinea, The Philippines and the wider Pacific from 1943 until the end of the war.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. 108 pages. This volume covers Allied types that fought in the brief but intense Netherlands East Indies [NEI] campaign from December 1941 to March 1942. because of some additional background on Dutch types, the full scope of this volume is 1940-1942. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour & Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. 132 pages. Presents the most accurate wartime profiles and histories to date of Imperial Japanese Navy bombers, transports, flying boats and miscellaneous types which served in the South Pacific. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. …

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour & Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. 136 pages. This volume covers those B-25, PBJ & F-10 Mitchell models which served in Australia, New Guinea and the Solomons. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 2nd Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour & Black & White Photographs and Maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 136 pages. On a late 1944 afternoon in New Guinea a weather front built up quickly and blocked the way home to more than three hundred U.S. Fifth Air Force aircraft, returning from attacking Hollandia. Over enemy territory, and caught between mountains and the sea, there was little option but to take on the storm. By dusk that evening thirty-seven aircraft were missing or had been destroyed. A major revision to the first edition with rare photos and maps, indexes and colour profiles of participant aircraft.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 160 pages. Covers the Douglas C-47 including numerous derivatives.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Colour drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 144 pages. Expert analysis of the pivotal WWII battle where American strength saved Australia.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and colour drawings of the planes by Michael Claringbould. Several colour maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 132 pages. A complete operational history of the Catalina in Australian service during WWII, during which 225 airmen lost their lives.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 156 pages. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, this book presents for the first time the full story of a little-known bomber offensive waged from remote northern Australia. Includes 2 Appendices - No. 18 NEI Squadron and its Australian Roots; Flying in RAAF Bombers - Brian Winspear's Story. Also has an Index of Names. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…