Search Results: True War Stories from RSM BOOKS

Queensland: Elizabeth I. Ellis, 1990. 231 pp. b/w photographs, flatsigned by the author on the title page, obscured previous owner's inscription on the dedication page. This is a factual account of the life of a trainee nurse, highlighting the hassles, the tragic and traumatic events and hilarious anecdotes occurring prior to and during the Second World War, in the era before the advent of antibiotics, ward domestics and wardsmen, before the introduction to country hospitals of section beds, rubber mattresses and hydraulic hoists, before the invention of the electrical ECG and monitoring machines and before life-support systems and other modern electrical equipment in the medical and surgical field.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Australia: Hutchinson, 1979. 176 pp. b/w photographs, minor foxing to edges and endpapers, signed and dated by the author on the title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, further signature (unidentified) on the title page with a personal note to the previous owner. This book takes a retrospective - and therefore, perhaps, more objective - look at the events surrounding that terrible night. By using personal accounts of actual participants, and piecing together both official and unofficial reports, Taylor has reconstructed the story from its various perspectives ... it is up to the reader to form his own conclusions.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Sun Papermac, 1983. 288 pp, b/w photographs, signed by the author on the half-title page, with a personal dedication to the previous owner. With a foreword by Russel Ward and preface by Manning Clark. This is the remarkable diary of a young prisoner of war, probably the only existing record of the entire period of imprisonment from the fall of Singapore (Changi) in 1942, through the infamous Thai (Burma Railway) camps to the end of the war with Japan.. Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

London: Methuen Drama, 1984. 253 pp. This is the story of The Musicians of Ausschwitz, the bizarre and shocking story of the death camp's female orchestra, translated from the French by Judith Landry. The story was made into a TV movie in 1980, whereby Vanessa Redgrave played Fania Fenelon. This paperback book is signed by Vanessa Redgrave "To Sue, every good wish, Vanessa Redgrave" on the critics page. Slight scuffing along edges, creased corner. Signed. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

England: Charmian Steele, 1991. 112 pp, b/w illustrations, flatsigned by the author on the title-page, with an introduction by Sir Anthony Parsons, slightly bumped on front cover bottom end. My special interest in Iraq and my love for its peoples, when combined with my pet hate – bullies and any form of bullying – probably meant that the creation of this work was inevitable. Writing the material involved long hours of hard work. Yet, looking back now, that part seem to have been easy when compared with the struggle involved in the production of the work in the form of this book: a story almost worthy of a publication of its own.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.

Australia: Penguin Books, 1987. 193 pp. b/w photographs, signed by the author on fep with a personal dedication to the previous owner. Hall gives a graphic account of the trial he covered for the Guardian, Time-Australia and Irish Radio. He details its revelations of abuses of power by intelligence officers and criticises their strange alliance with sections of the press. His incisive analysis provides a framework for understanding the curious psychology of spycatchers in Britain, Australia and the USA.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1915. 68 pp, complete with five diagrams and eighty-two photographs, tissue protected frontis, ink marks on title page and tissue paper, original brown boards with photo of Botha on the front cover, rubbed along edges and on spine, wear to top and tail end of spine, shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Crown 8vo.