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Wellington, New Zealand: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs. Fair with no dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. This copy is in fair condition only, with dampstains to both boards, to margins of endpapers, and to frontispiece. Extensive staining to rear board. Some dampstains to margins of first few leaves and frontispiece, otherwise good internally. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Lacking the dust-jacket. ; xv, [1] , 378, [1] pages + frontispiece + 67 illustrations + 6 folding colour maps + 12 in-text maps. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213 x 135mm. Contents: Foreword; The Beginning; First Desert Campaign; Greece; Crete; Escape; Towards the Frontier; Sidi Rezegh; Beyond Tobruk; To Teheran and Syria; Minqar Qaim; Alamein; Advance to Tripoli; The End in Africa; Mule Pack Company; To Maadi; To Italy; To Cassino; To Rome; To the Adriatic; Into 1945; Postscript; Appendix: First New Zealand Escape from Germany; Roll of Honour; Honours and Awards; Index. [Reference: Bagnall H659] .

Previous owner's rubber stamp on front endpaper. Death Notice and Roll of Honour clipping for Arthur James Poole, 22nd Battalion, pasted to rear endpaper. Lacking the dust-jacket, otherwise a nice copy of this title.; xvi, 487, [2], [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 64 illustrations on 12 plate leaves + 7 folding colour maps + 19 in-text maps. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213 x 140mm. Contents: Foreword; Preface; These were the Men; Maleme, Crete; Libya, 1941; Into 1942 and Syria; Minqar Qaim; Diasaster on Ruweisat; Alamein; To Italy; Across the Sangro; Cassion; La Romola; Adriatic; Casa Elta; 'Hell of a Crack'; Japan; Appendix: Rugby Memories; Roll of Honour; Summary of Casualties; Honours and Awards; Commanding Officers; Index. [Bibliographical reference: Bagnall H662]

Previous owner's rubber name stamp on front endpaper. Dust-jacket has a three 15mm tears to margins. Small adhesive tape stain at tail of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xv, [1] , 378, [1], [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 67 illustrations + 6 folding colour maps + 12 in-text maps. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 214 x 134mm. Contents: Foreword; The Beginning; First Desert Campaign; Greece; Crete; Escape; Towards the Frontier; Sidi Rezegh; Beyond Tobruk; To Teheran and Syria; Minqar Qaim; Alamein; Advance to Tripoli; The End in Africa; Mule Pack Company; To Maadi; To Italy; To Cassino; To Rome; To the Adriatic; Into 1945; Postscript; Appendix: First New Zealand Escape from Germany; Roll of Honour; Honours and Awards; Index. [Reference: Bagnall H659]

pp. xv 378, folding maps, illus., maps in text. With jdustwrapper.Index, important historical series. Deals with the Reserve Mechanical Transport companies, largely in the Middle East.