Description

Hardcover, gray cloth lettered in gold, in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 317pp., Index. Illustrated with photographs, color frontispiece and pictorial endpapers. First edition. Brief biographies of the circumstances surronding the winning of the Victoria Cross and George Cross by members of the Austrailian armed forces from 1900 to 1960. Typed letter from old comrade in arms [from Australia] laid-in. Addressed to friend in USA and mentions Lord Montgomery to attend the next re-union of the 9th Division to be held in Sydney, October, 1968. No previous ownership marks. Dust-jacket in reinforced mylar covers. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.