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Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:9781853104534.

Zustand: Fine. 256, b/w illus. . PB. Fine. 2nd impression.This is the story of a deadly struggle between fanatical Japanese Imperial troops and the British Army. It was fought in the dense tropical jungle of Burma in 1943 and 1944 and was one of the toughest battles of World War II. In this conflict, Major-General Orde Wingate employed fighting tactics that were not the product of an army staff college, but gleaned from his previous experiences of guerrilla warfare learned in Palestine and Abyssinia. [9781840372892].

Hard Cover. Important volume of the RGS journal including content on the Terry and Mackay Explorations in Western and Central Australia, Admiral Byrd's Antarctic Expedition, the Middle East and New Guinea, such as: The Andes of the North West Argentine by E. de Martonne, with map; Surveying Cruises of H.M.S. Challenger off the Coast of Labrador, 1932-3, by A. G. N. Wyatt, with map; Notes on a Survey of the Victoria Falls 1905-6 by H. F. Varian; The Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen, 1933 by A. R. Glen; Admiral Byrd's Antarctic Expedition; A Polish Expedition to the High Andes by S. W. Daszynski; Notes on Current Polar Expeditions by J. M. Scott; The Karakoram And Turkistan Expedition of 1929-30 by Ph. C. Visser; Changes in the Physical Geography of East Africa in Human Times by L. S. B. Leakey; Some Notes on a Recent Journey in Afghanistan by Christopher Sykes, with map; The Himalaya East of the Tsangpo by F. K. Ward, with map; The Central Ranges of the Mandated Territory of New guinea From Mount Chapman to Mount Hagen by E. W. P. Chinnery, with map; Mapping the Purari Plateau, New Guinea, by K. L. Spinks, with map; The Book of the Mt. Everest Expedition, 1933, review by C. F. Meade; Explorations Near the Border of Western Australia by M. Terry, with map; The Mackay Aerial Survey Expedition, Central Australia May-June 1930 by D. Mackay, with map; and Alfred Wegener's Greenland Expeditions 1929 and 1930-31, review by M. Spender. 8vo, 556pp, Index (ii), b&w illus and maps throughout. Dark blue cloth covers with gilt title at spine. Covers gently rubbed, gilt library number hand lettered at base of spine. Internally, sml library stamp inside front cover, o/w very good.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Somerfield, T.; Hodgson, E.S.; Sheldon, C.M.; De Walton, John; Sutcliffe, J.E.; Whittaker, W.G.; "Robin"; Elcock, Howard; Small, A.G.; Wright, Frank; Wood, Stanley L.; Prater, Ernest; Paxton, R.B.M.; Morrow, Albert (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 90-176 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Features: My Rest-Cure - experience on a house-boat in Kashmir; The Saving of the "Cardium" - what happened with this oil ship caught fire with 12,000 tons of benzene aboard; The Hinton Murder Case, and George W. Pendleton; "Little Woman of Flame" - what happened with two solitary white women took up farming in East Africa; Photo of steeplejack Jack Hassler climbing a building in Philadelphia; "My Strangest Experience"; The Lifted Veil, part 6 of a strange story of two British officer POWs in Turkey; The Temple of the Tapirs - an exciting trip into the wilds of Mexico; "Draw Poker" - a detective recounts a New York story; Among the Bolshevists - an R.A.F. officers interesting sidelights on the operations against the Bolshevists in North Russia - with great photos; Into the Unknown - part 2 - chasing mountain outlaws in New Guinea; A Cowboy Adrift; A Kedah Buffalo-Fight - photo-illustrated story of this little-known Malay (Malaysian) sport; Photo of huge (dead) gorilla in the Cameroons; Anthropop-Apology; The Long Arm of the Law - murderers who were detected years after their crimes; The Battle of Ludlow - strikers battle state militiamen in the Colorado coalfields. Covers detached but present. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy.