Scribe melbourne 2009 (14 risultati)

Octavo, vi+346 pages, original wrappers, a very good copy. First edition, date of purchase written on endpaper.

paperback in very good condition, pages tanned; 396 pages, b/w photos.

There is some light tanning to the pages, otherwise a near fine first edition paperback. 314 Pages.

Condizione: Very Good. 8vo. softcover. 287pp. b/w illus. Very good.

Octavo, xxx+346 pages, illustrated, original wrappers, a very good copy. First Australian edition. One of the world's most influential experts on military strategy and adviser to General David Petraeus in Iraq.

Paperback, 15.5x23.5cm, 212pp. Very good condition. Light wear. A little creased at corners. Tanned page edges. ISBN: 9781921640001.

287 pp including index, coloured plates, very good copy in pictorial, limp wrappers.

8vo, xii + 420pp. Original predominantly red pictorial wrapper. b/w photographic illustrations on plates. A near-fine copy.

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers trade paperback, vi/298pp, b&w plates. Light wear to card edges, pages lightly browned; a very good copy. At exactly 1.30 p.m. on 1 September 1918, the dozen men of Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion, rose from Elsa Trench and walked across a weedy beet-field toward the German defenders of Mont St Quentin. Within hours, three were dead and five more were wounded, one of whom died six weeks later. The survivors returned from war, more-or-less intact, to live through the next sixty-odd years in the shadow of that traumatic event. Men of Mont St Quentin tells the story of the men of Nine Platoon and their families. This is the first time that the story of such a group of Australians has been told - only made possible because Garry Roberts, the father of one of the dead, was so grieved by his son Frank's death that he obsessively collected accounts of what happened that afternoon. The Roberts' family papers, used here in this way for the first time, reveal the lives of Frank's comrades and their families as they came to terms with loss and life after war. In the hands of Peter Stanley, one of Australia's leading military historians, a famous battlefield in France becomes unforgettably connected with Australian men and their families in the long aftermath of the Great War.…

1st edition stiff wrappers New Book octavo xix + 346pp., b/w pls., maps, index, David Kilcullen an Australian analyst says 'The West has continually misidentified insurgents with limited aims & legitimate grievances "accidental guerrillas" as members of a worldwide terror network'.

1st edition stiff wrappers As New octavo xvii + 315pp., maps, notes, sources, index, In the spring of 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte was at the height of his powers. Forty-five million called him emperor, and he commanded a nation that was the richest, most cultured, and advanced on earth. No army could stand against his impeccably trained, brilliantly led forces, and his continued sweep across Europe seemed inevitable. But another powerful and ancient enemy awaited Napoleon's men in the Russian steppes. Virulent and swift, this microscopic foe would bring the emperor to his knees.…

1st edition stiff wrappers New Book octavo vi + 298pp., b/w pls., bibliog., index, Story of Nine Platoon, 21st Battalion at Mont St. Quentin in September 1918.

OKt. 2. 310 S., Wegen der PPWR-Bestimmungen (Verpackungsmittelverordungen der EU) liefern wir nicht in Staaten der EU, mit Ausnahme von Österreich. Due to PPWR regulations (EU Packaging Directives), we do not deliver to EU countries, with the exception of Austria. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 430. …

Condizione: Very Good. 8vo. softcover. 208pp. b/w illus. Very good, corners slightly creased.