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Australian War Memorial Canberra 1957 1st edition. Hard cover dust wrapper 715pp b&w plates and maps. Dw is chipped and worn with some tears, not all of which have been taped on reverse. Foxing and browning on dw. Now protected. Fair bit of nibbling on boards and front ep and half title. Fly missing. Else reading copy only. Relates mainly to the operations in Malaya in the first 10 weeks of the war with Japan. Also covers the experiences of the small garrisons that were overrun in New Britain, Ambon and Dutch Timor. Part III deals with the POW experience, including in Changi, the Burma Thailand Railway, Borneo and Japan.