MILITARY & ESPIONAGE from Bookhome Sydney

Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2023. Paperback thick octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear cover corner tips. 463 pp. Nick McKenzie shares the powerful untold story of how a small group of brave soldiers and two determined reporters overcame a plot to suppress one of the greatest military scandals in Australian history. The author aims to tell the Ben Roberts-Smith story… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1943. 1st ed.. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in fair dustjacket), illustrated cloth cover, black & white photos & drawing, frontispiece, light foxing edges, pages lightly toned (endpapers toned), top corners cloth covers bumped, bottom corners little bumped, light foxing & toning reverse side jacket (some loss top of spine & top edge,… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2022. Reprint ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos centre spread, minimal edgewear. 310 pp. This is the story by Tom Gilling of the Australian war crimes trials that came after World War 2. One prosecution witness stood out: Warrant Officer Bill Sticpewich. During his three years in the infamous Sandakan POW… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2001. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, minor edgewear jacket (small dent front cover, sticker mark), corner tips covers & spine ends little rubbed. 183 pp. This history of women in the Australian Army by Janette Bomford traces women's struggle for a place in… Read more about this item

Loftus, NSW: Australian Military History Publications / Australian Army History Unit, 2010. Facsimile ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, minor edgewear jacket 323 pp. A biography of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Green, DSO, by his wife Olwyn Green. He trained in 41 Militia Battalion in the 1930s and then joined the… Read more about this item

London: Penguin Random House UK, 2019. Paperback small trade, very good condition, black & white & colour & few sepia (brown-tinted) photos, minor edgewear. 370 pp. This is the story of Colonel Oleg Gordievsky, chief of the KGB's London station who in 1985 was summoned to Moscow. He feared for his life because he was a secret British spy.… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1989. Hardback small octivao, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), endpaper maps, black & white text-photos, maps, slight foxing reverse side jacket spine little faded, (minor edgewear, two tiny dents), spine ends slightly rubbed. 171 pp. Sheila Ross relates the untold account of a guerrilla band which fought the Japanese in the Philippines… Read more about this item

London: J. A. Allen & Co., 1963. Hardback small quarto, glassine dustjacket, very good condition (in very good jacket), grey cloth boards (red lettering front & spine, gold insignia), black & white text-photos, few drawings, diagrams, indexes, appendixes, faint foxing top edge, tiny tear bottom edge jacket. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 244… Read more about this item

Glenhuntly, VIC: 57/60th Battalion (AIF) Association, 1991. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, colour frontispiece, maps, minor edgewear jacket. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 351 pp. (Volume 2 only.) This volume - the second of two volumes - begins in 1930 when the 57th… Read more about this item

Perth, Northbridge: Access Press, 1997. 1st ed.. Hardback large wide octavo, no jacket, very good condition, pictorial cover, illustrated endpapers, black & white text-photos, small scuff top spine, top corners covers little bumped, minor edgewear, owner name & address label spine & front free flyleaf. 416 pp. (This copy: Hardcover edition, Access Press, 1997, which has the same… Read more about this item

Sydney, Castlecrag: Self-Published: Reg Kidd and Ray Neal, 1998. Hardback large octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjackt), black & white text-photos (mostly full-page), maps, diagrams, minor edgewear jacket (sticker mark front cover). Heavy (1.1 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 415 pp. This is the story of the raising of 19… Read more about this item

New York: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2011. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), maps, tables, black & white text-photos, minor edgewear jacket. 347 pp. Allan Converse uniquely reflects upon the experience of two divisions from different armies facing similar challenges in the Second World War in Europe (Sicily, Normandy), North Africa (Tobruk, Alamein) and southeast… Read more about this item

Sydney, Manly: Royal Australian Artillery Historical Company, 2008. Hardback large octavo, no jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, black & white text-photos, maps, diagrams, frontispiece, black & white photo front endpaper, map rear endpaper, few tiny bumps fore-edge. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 184 pp. Alan Smith records the story of… Read more about this item

London: Blink Publishing, 2022. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white & few sepia (brown-tinted) & colour photos, minor edgewear. 402 pp. Richard Kerbaj provides a fascinating history of the Five Eyes which is the international intelligence collaboration network between the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Until 2010, its existence remained a closely kept secret. The… Read more about this item

Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2012. New ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos, frontispiece, bottom corner slightly creased rear cover, minor edgewear. 366 pp. The Kokoda campaign of 1942 is one of the classic battles in Australian military history. This is the story of Damien Parer who took the photos that became our history, and which captured… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph, 1988. Reprint ed.. Hardback large thick octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, endpaper map, minor edgewear jacket, book covers corners slightly bumped & edges slightly toned. 476 pp. Max Hastings, a British journalist and military specialist, provides a definitive but popular history of the Korean War (1950 - 1953).… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Richmond: Hodder Australia, 2022. Paperback octavo, very good condition, laminate slightly lifting bottom corner rear cover, minor edgewear. 268 pp. Alex Joske provides extraordinary insight into the most successful influence operation in history, involving both espionage and spreading misinformation. China has fooled the West for years. This book will interest professionals, and anyone who wants to understand the… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press (MUP), 2017. 2nd (Centenary) ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, map, black & white photos, frontispiece drawing, bottom corner flyleaf creased, minor edgewear covers corner tips. 339 pp. Paul Daley documents the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade that took part in 'last great cavalry charge' in October, 1917 against the Turks at Beersheba. The author… Read more about this item

Sydney, Narrabeen: Casper Publications, 2013. Paperback small octavo, very good plus condition, colour photos centre spread, black & white text-photos, maps, minor edgewear. 319 pp. Just three months after the surprise air raid over Darwin in 1942, Australians were once again shaken when the Japanese launched a surprise midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour. This book for the first… Read more about this item

Sydney: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2002. New, reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos, minor edgewear. 390 pp. Peter FitzSimons has written a remarkable biography of Nancy Wake, the brave Australian woman who fought against the Nazis in France during WW2, especially in support of the underground Maquis resistance fighters. She developed such a highly successful escape network… Read more about this item