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Child & Associates, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. One in an interesting collection of military books dealing with Word War 2 in the Pacific and East Asia purchased recently from a collector in Australia. All these volumes are available on this site and you can find the whole collection by searching here on the special keyword WBMPACIFICXX. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; Pacific Ocean; ISBN: 0867773405. ISBN/EAN: 9780867773408. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 14980. . 9780867773408
Aces Wild, A Tale of the Pacific War by Odgers, George - 1988
by Odgers, George
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Aces Wild, A Tale of the Pacific War
by Odgers, George
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Sydney : Child & Associates, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Octavo (standard book size). Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting No foxing in this copy All edges clean, neat and free of foxing Boards have slight shelf wear Set on the fictional Pacific island of Balanai in the final stages of World War 11, this novel tells the story of a group of six men-fighter aces -driven to desperate measures by the unreasonable orders of their commanding officer.As the Japanese forces were defeated in major engagements to the north of Balanai and with the 'island hopping' strategy of the US forces, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers were left behind on the bypassed islands to 'wither on the vine'. The RAAF forces on Balanai were no longer in the front line of the action and their contribution could not affect the end result of the war.However, the commanding officer, former World War I hero, Air Commodore Arnold Tremayne Blandy, desperate to get his men forward with the Americans and be part of the last advance against the Japanese, orders his pilots to keep up a high rate of operational effort (beyond that which was actually required), flying missions against the remaining Japanese ground forces.The men obey his orders and watch in despair as life after young life is needlessly wasted -all the time wondering which of them is to be next. Six of the fighter aces, led by Group Captain David Miller, find the continuing slaughter unbearable, and take the unprecedented step of formally tendering their resignations.
As the action rises to a crescendo, two of the pilots, Miller and Eddington, refuse a direct order from Blandy and are suspended from operations, with a charge of mutiny hanging over them.The author skilfully portrays the personality changes experienced by men under immense physical and psychological pressures. The reader follows the experiences of David Miller and the other pilots, and knows what it is like to live on the edge of the jungle and on the edge of death.
Yet, the reader can also follow with sympathy the deterioration of Blandy into a bitter, warped, ageing man obsessed with getting back into the front line of battle at any cost.
As the action rises to a crescendo, two of the pilots, Miller and Eddington, refuse a direct order from Blandy and are suspended from operations, with a charge of mutiny hanging over them.The author skilfully portrays the personality changes experienced by men under immense physical and psychological pressures. The reader follows the experiences of David Miller and the other pilots, and knows what it is like to live on the edge of the jungle and on the edge of death.
Yet, the reader can also follow with sympathy the deterioration of Blandy into a bitter, warped, ageing man obsessed with getting back into the front line of battle at any cost.
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- Format/Binding Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition Good
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- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- ISBN 10 0867773405
- ISBN 13 9780867773408
- Publisher Child & Associates
- Place of Publication Sydney
- Date Published 1988
- Pages 200
- Keywords Military fiction Pacific War, military fiction, WWII, Japanese army, RAAF
- X weight 303.000 kg
- Size Octavo (standard book size)
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Aces Wild: A Tale of the Pacific War
by George Odgers
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Aces Wild
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Sydney: Child & Associates. 1988. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Light stain to upper rear interior of DJ. 200 pages. A tale of the Pacific War. The first fiction book by the author an Australian war historian. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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ACES WILD - A Tale of the Pacific War - AUTHOR SIGNED
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Frenchs Forest, Child & Assoc. first edition - h/c in d.j. The author skilfully portrays the personality changes experienced by men under immense physical and psychological pressures. The reader follows the experiences of David Miller and the other piilots, and knows what it is like to live on the edge of the jungle and on the edge of death. 233 x 162mm., pp. 200, contents fine, d.j. has closed tear bottom spine & back top, bright & clean. AUTHOR SIGNED, vg+. ISBN: 0867773405
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