Countess Mountbatten Burma (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition; First Printing. Green boards, pristine, sharp and square, As New. Protected dustjacket clean and bright, As New. Book is firm in binding, numerous b&w historic and color photographs, 269 pages include Index. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; B&W and Color photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 269 pages.

Hard Back. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First. Binding is black cloth with gilt lettering on spine; very tight and clean. Dj now protected inside a cover. Size: 9" x 6". Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Includes many b/w photographs. 214pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First. Black boards with illust.unclipped jacket; Book is fine condition clean, sound & unmarked; Jacket is near fine, small crease on top of back flap but no chips/tears; 286 pages with index, illust.by b/w photo centre section; Written by a WW2 Commando veteran, this book covers all the major operations that the Commandos took part in during the war.

Hard Cover. Condition: Excellent. Foreword By Countess Mountbatten of Burma (illustrator). As a naval officer for 40 years the author was able to observe Mountbatten's naval career at close quarters and in 1944-45 served on his staff in the Pacific. Size: 24cm. Heavy Book Over 500gms.

Softcover. Condition: FINE! AUSTRALIAN MILITARY GENERAL MILITARY World War II -'Vyner Brooke' was a small, nineteen hundredton steamer designed to carry cargo and no more than fifty passengers between Sarawak and the East Indies, but on St Valentine's Day, February 14th 1942, her decks and cabins were packed with over three hundred women and children - evacuees fleeing from a ferocious and unprovoked Japanese assault upon Singapore, which had left its waterfront blazing.They had hoped, somehow to reach Australia and safety. Instead, the 'Vyner Brooke' was attacked by Japanese aircraft, bombed and sunk in the Bangka Strait, and survivors struggled for long hours, even days, battling strong currents to reach shore exhausted, only for some of them to be bloodily slaughtered there by Japanese troops. 144 p. : ill., 1 map, ports. ; 21 cm. #121125 World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives Prisoners of war -- Singapore -- Personal narratives Singapore -- History -- Siege, 1942 -- Personal narratives Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Published by Sutton Publishing of Gloucestershire, England in 1999. Soft cover, so no Dust Jacket. Book condition: Very Good. Both photographic cover and inside pages are in good order. See photograph. Dims: 245mm x 172mm x 15mm. 224 pages. A collection of first-hand accounts of conditions in Burma, India and the Far East from men and women who served there during the Second World War. Includes a foreword by the Rt. Hon. the Countess Mountbatten of Burma.

First Edition. Pp. xiv+240(last blank), 32 plates, index; med. 8vo; price-clipped dust wrapper, foxed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, endpapers lightly offset, some foxing, mainly to outer leaves and edges; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1983. First edition.

A presentation run of this rare periodical, inscribed by the editor on the front pastedown, "For Lady Mountbatten. My dear Lady Mountbatten, This bound volume of Young Malayans comes to you and your husband with our very best wishes for your happiness and long life. Richard Sidney, Editor. 15 Perak Road, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. 26 June 1952." The inscription is countersigned by four members of the magazine's staff, including Kong Yulin (secretary), Pang Yow Chee (manager), Chan Kai (photographer), and Lum Sien Yuen (general assistant). Immediately following the Second World War, Edwina Mountbatten established the Welfare Council for Malaya. In 1952, she toured south-east Asia and, following her return to the UK, called for St John Ambulance to send medical teams to provide aid to Malaya's "new villages" (resettlement camps). Her work, as with this periodical, reflected British beliefs that humanitarianism and education could be an effective tool of counterinsurgency. Quarto (305 x 215 mm). Illustrations in text; some mastheads printed in colour. Original blue buckram, spine lettered in black, front cover lettered in black within recessed panel, binder's ticket of Caxton Press, Kuala Lumpur, on front pastedown. Cloth sunned, some leaves browned, otherwise general toning internally: very good.