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  Routledge, 1997. Book Condition: Used. This Book is in Good Condition. Clean Copy With Light Amount of Wear, some spine sunning and a crease on the top edge of the front cover. Scrape on top text edge. Owner inscribed and signed on front free end paper, DJ  O'Hanlon, CDR SAN (RETD) Ex RN, Ex POW China and Japan, 1941 - 45.   Summary: This text details the activities of Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army, a formation dedicated to conducting bacterial warfare research in Manchuria. Under the command of Colonel Ishii Shiro, the unit conducted many experiments in the 1930s and 1940s which involved the use of living subjects. The author shows how the United States government provided immunity from investigation for men who thereby avoided war crimes trials, so that the US could acquire the results of Japanese expertise in bacteriological warfare. 297 pp.

2009. Soft cover, 330 pages. Very good condition; like new. Under 1kg The remarkable true story of the Queen Alexandra frontline nurses in the Second World War.   The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the Second World War form one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remain largely untold. Thousands of middle-class girls, barely out of school, were plucked from sheltered backgrounds, subjected to training regimes unimaginably tough by today's standards, and sent forth to share the harsh conditions of the fighting services. They had to deal with the most appalling suffering, yet most found reserves of inner strength that carried them through episodes of unrelieved horror.   Over 200 nurses died, torpedoed in hospital ships, bombed in field hospitals or murdered in Japanese prison camps. Dozens won medals for gallantry. From the beaches of Dunkirk, to Singapore and D-Day, they saw it all. Whether tending burned pilots from the Battle of Britain or improvising medical treatment in Japanese death camps, their dedication was second to none. This is their story.   

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It s and China is on the brink of collapse. Nanking is under siege from the Japanese Imperial Army, the streets awash with violence, the civilians desperate. The protective walls of a western church provide the only haven from the vicious battles outside. Here, an American John Miller (Christian Bale) caught in the midst of the chaos, joins a small group trying escape the violence wrought by the Japanese army. Through one act of heroism, this group of disparate refugees fight back, risking their lives for the sake of others and the nation. Inspired by true events, THE FLOWERS OF WAR tells the incredible story of an unlikely group standing up against an unimaginable and overwhelming evil.

 2000 Soft Cover 279pp Very Good. Appears unread, spine not creased, some minor shelf wear, some foxing to end pages ends a bit marked but contents clean and tight. In 1938 Arthur Titherington lied about his age so he could join the army at 17 and finally get to see the world. He was taken prisoner in 1942 when the British surrendered Singapore to the Japanese. From there he was marched to the slave labour camp of Kinkaseki, now part of Taiwan, where he worked in a copper mine for three years. Beatings and a near-starvation diet took their toll and when he was finally liberated in 1945 he weighed just five-and-a-half stone, exactly half the weight he was when he joined the army as a motor cycle dispatch rider.

2010 hardcover with dust jacket and 224 pages in splendid condition. R65 postage in SA. With his parting words "I shall return," General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain, named Russell Volckmann, refused to surrender. He disappeared into the jungles of north Luzon where he raised a Filipino army of over 22,000 men. For the next three years he led a guerrilla war against the Japanese, killing over 50,000 enemy soldiers. At the same time he established radio contact with MacArthur's HQ in Australia and directed Allied forces to key enemy positions. When General Yamashita finally surrendered, he made his initial overtures not to MacArthur, but to Volckmann. This book establishes how Volckmann's leadership was critical to the outcome of the war in the Philippines. His ability to synthesize the realities and potential of guerrilla warfare led to a campaign that rendered Yamashita's forces incapable of repelling the Allied invasion. Had it not been for Volckmann, the Americans would have gone in "blind" during their counter-invasion, reducing their efforts to a trial-and-error campaign that would undoubtedly have cost more lives, materiel, and potentially stalled the pace of the entire Pacific War. Second, this book establishes Volckmann as the progenitor of modern counterinsurgency doctrine and the true "Father" of Army Special Forces—a title that history has erroneously awarded to Colonel Aaron Bank of the ETO. In 1950, Volckmann wrote two Army field manuals: Operations Against Guerrilla Forces and Organization and Conduct of Guerrilla Warfare, though today few realize he was their author. Together, they became the Army's first handbooks outlining the precepts for both special warfare and counter-guerrilla operations. Taking his argument directly to the Army Chief of Staff, Volckmann outlined the concept for Army Special Forces. At a time when U.S. military doctrine was conventional in outlook, he marketed the ideas of guerrilla warfare as a critical force multiplier for any future conflict, ultimately securing the establishment of the Army's first special operations unit—the 10th Special Forces Group. Volckmann himself remains a shadowy figure in modern military history, his name absent from every major biography on MacArthur, and in much of the Special Forces literature. Yet as modest, even secretive, as Volckmann was during his career, it is difficult to imagine a man whose heroic initiative had more impact on World War II. This long-overdue book not only chronicles the dramatic military exploits of Russell Volckmann, but analyzes how his leadership paved the way for modern special-warfare doctrine.

This is a soldier's story about South African soldiers in southern Angola and Namibia and the enemies they fought. It tells of insurgency and counter-insurgency, guerrilla warfare and counter-guerrilla warfare, almost conventional warfare and conventional warfare. It tells of a conflict which the world saw as unpopular and unjust, in which South Africa was perceived as the aggressor. The South African soldiers who fought in it, however, saw it as a conflict fought to stop what is now Namibia falling into the hands of the Soviet and Cuban-backed SWAPO black nationalist political organisation. After Namibia South Africa would be next. They saw the whole conflict as an extension of the Cold War, but while it was on the frontiers in Europe, in Angola they were fighting a very hot war in Angola. Eventually, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the war was resolved by the democratic solution of UN supervised free and fair elections in Namibia. Since then, regrettably, there has been interference by the ruling party with the democratic constitution put in place in Namibia which has eroded much of that hard won democracy. 32 Battalion, of which Colonel Jan Breytenbach was the founding commander, became the most controversial unit in the South African Army because of the secrecy surrounding it. Its story is virtually the story of the Angolan/Namibian war, because its involvement in it was greater than any other South African unit. The regiment primarily consisted of black troops and NCOs originating from virtually every tribe in Angola. They were led by white South African officers and NCOs. Neither apartheid nor any form of racial discrimination was ever practiced in the unit. There was always a sprinkling of whites originating from countries like Great Britain, the old Rhodesia, Portugal and the USA amongst its leadership cadre, although in the latter stages of its existence this shrank to only a few. Such a presence undoubtedly led to stories circulating that the unit was a led by foreign white mercenaries. While it was true that the black Angolan element could have fallen with the mercenary definition, the whites involved were attested soldiers in the South African Army. In any case, they formed a minority and the vast majority of white officers and NCOs were born South Africans. The unit's aggressiveness and the successes it achieved in the field of battle, often against incredible odds, lay in its spirit and its  espirit de corps. In this respect and in many other ways it compared favourably with the French Foreign Legion. Its story parallels with and reminds one of the British and British Commonwealth Chindits of World War-2, operating behind the Japanese lines in Burma in large formations, out-guerrillaing those who only three years earlier had been regarded in awe as the unbeatable jungle warfare experts. Likewise, 32-Battalion consistently outfought both FAPLA, SWAPO and the Cubans in the Angola bush throughout the war years. It created a problem to which neither they nor their Soviet and East German mentors ever found a solution to. After the 1989 Namibian settlement the unit was with withdrawn to South Africa where they were deployed to effectively deal with MK infiltrations into the north of South Africa. From there, after the unbanning of the ANC in 1990, they were redeployed to deal with political troubles, principally between armed ANC self defense units and armed units of the IFP. The intrusion of black foreigners into the townships who were prepared to deal with troubles robustly and without fear or favour, did not suit either the ANC or the IFP, as they could not be subverted to support local causes because they held no local tribal allegiances. In the end it seems they became something of a bargaining chip at the CODESA negotiations, designed to find a new political dispensation for South Africa. Despite it having borne the brunt of South Africa' war in Angola with the blood of its troops, the National Party Government disgracefully ordered its arbitrary disbandment in March 1993 and the unit ceased to exist. Paperback, 360 pages with photos & maps  

LAST BLOOD Synopsis: Famous revolutionary and religious leader Dakka Lama, is visiting Singapore on the country’s 25th anniversary. The Japanese Red Army has hired an assassinationteam to kill the Lama at all cost and by whatever way necessary.   Starring: Andy Lau Kirk Wong   Category: Action   Age Restriction: 13 V

BATTLE OF THE WARRIORS Synopsis: HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS star Andy Lau delivers a power-packed performance in this epic tale of swords, valor, and Sun Tzu-style strategy from the action director of Jet Li’s HERO. In 370 B.C., a small kingdom lies directly in the path of a massive, advancing army. When all hope is lost, the people turn to a lone, mysterious stranger to rescue them from siege and conquest. Based on the sensational Japanese manga series BOKKOU. BATTLE OF THE WARRIORS features a gritty, realistic style with an incredible level of historical detail that highlights each of its unparalleled, ferocious battles.   Starring: Andy Lau Ahn Sungki   Category: Martial Art   Age Restriction: 13 V

TITLE........................:  THE CHURCHES OF THE CAPTIVITY IN MALAYA SUBTITLE..................:  AUTHOR...................: REV. J. N. LEWIS BRYAN PUBLISHER...............:SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE DATE & EDITION.......:st COVER SIZE (mm)....: 190 x 250 CONDITION...............: fair - good DUST JACKET...........: no COVERS.....................: orange boards, heavy age soiling with slight wear to edges, corners bumped & worn  SPINE.........................: with title,  wear to extremities, sunned END & FLY PAPERS.: good, browned and spotted PAGES.......................:  72pp generally bright & clean    BINDING....................: tight PLATES & MAPS.......: 27 full page plates of mainly artwork (many are colour) & many vignettes – photos & drawings INSCRIPTIONS..........: owners name inside front cover SYNOPSIS, BLURB...:  A poignant record of the spiritual effort and life of Allied Prisoners of War during the occupation of SE Asia by the Japanese Imperial Army. A very keenly felt work made and published very soon after the war.  

A great collection of ten Second World War Newspapers from the first part of the war. Some major highlights from WW2 are headlined, including the sinking of Germany's highly trumped Bismarck battleship, the bombing of London during the Blitz, the invasion of the Philippines by the Japanese and the first major defeat of the German army in Russia. The list of 10 newspapers is: Daily Express - May Daily Sketch - August Daily Mail - December News Chronicle - February News Chronicle - May Daily Express - May Daily Sketch - December Daily Mirror - December Daily Express - January Daily Express - June In good condition for their age. Highly collectable. An opportunity to own a piece of history. Great if framed and displayed with historical headlines from the world's largest conflict. Call or sms Greg on . Email queries welcome too.

1994 first edition hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  A thick book of 709 pages.  R55 postage in SA or R60 courier to most bigger cities. Sir Edward Dunlop, or 'Weary' as many knew him, became a hero to thousands of prisoners of war on the Burma-Thailand 'Death Railway' during World War II. When the War broke out he took charge of a surgical team at St. Mary's, Paddington in the Emergency Medical Service, then joined the Australian Army and served in Palestine, Egypt, Greece, Crete and North Africa. In 1942 he sailed with his medical unit to Java and elected to be captured with the Allied General Hospital he began there. During more than three years as a prisoner of war, his gift for organizing vast hospital camps in Java and on the railway in Thailand, his courage, compassion and determination to get men home alive, made him a legend in his lifetime. Had his frank diaries of captivity been found by the Japanese, he would have been beheaded. Returning to Australia in 1945, Weary dedicated his life to caring for former Allied prisoners of war. Sadly he died before this biography, written with his full cooperation, could be published.

 The Illustrated London News (19 December 1942)- Battle of El-Agheila   Please Note: SPINE IS WORN IN PLACES AND ONE OR TWO PAGES ARE LOOSE.   This item is 76 years old, and thus is in GOOD CONDITION, due to its nature of being a disposal publication at the time of circulation. Content covered in the publication: GENERAL MONTGOMERY AS C-IN-C OF THE EIGHTH ARMY MONTGOMERY'S ASSAULT AGAINST AFRIKA KORPS GENERAL ERWIN ROMMEL AT BATTLE OF EL AGHEILA MILITARY CONTOUR MAP OF GERMAN DEFENSIVE POSITIONS AT EL-AGHEILA NEVER BEFORE SEEN PHOTOS OF RETREATING GERMAN FORCES AND THE DESTRUCTION OF BHENGAZI HARBOUR FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE GLENN-MARTIN MARS MILITARY TRANSPORT PLANE FEATURE ON THE JUNKERS JU-52 NAZI MILITARY PLANE MENTION OF H.M. SUBMARINE "TRUANT" WHICH HAD SUCCESSFULLY SUNK MORE THAN 20 AXIS VESSELS IMAGES OF COMBAT IN NEW GUINEA AGAINST THE JAPANESE AND THE TEBOURBA BATTLE ZONE IN TUNISIA EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS OF THE RUSSIAN FRONT- DEPICTING BOTH GERMAN AND SOVIET FORCES Featured Personalities: DEATH OF PRINCE EITEL FRIEDRICH- SON OF KAISER WILHELM II GENERAL ZEITZLER OF THE GERMAN GENERAL STAFF FIELD-MARSHALL JAN SMUTS   NB: NO FOREIGN BIDDERS NO PERSONAL COLLECTION OF ITEMS PAYMENT TO BE MADE WITHIN 48 HOURS COURIER IS BY POSTNET COUNTER-TO-COUNTER.

1950 hardcover with dust jacket and 378 pages in very good condition. R60 postage in SA. Frederick Spencer Chapman, DSO & Bar, ED (10 May 1907 – 8 August 1971) was a British Army officer and World War II veteran, most famous for his exploits behind enemy lines in Japanese occupied Malaya. His medals include the following: the Distinguished Service Order and Bar, the Polar Medal, Gill Memorial Medal, Mungo Park Medal, and the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal.