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CALLINAN BERNARD J.
Independent
Company. The 2/2 and 2/4 Australian Independent Companies in Portuguese
Timor, 1941-1943. Foreword by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Vernon Sturdee, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O.
Introductory Chapter by Nevil Shute. with e/paper maps, frontis. & 44 plates & maps. pub. Melb.
Heinemann 1953 1st.ed. or. green .cl. 8vo. pp.XXXIII.236. Account of Australian
commando-type units and their successful campaign in Timor. Forced back into the mountains, the
men of the 2/2 and 2/4 Independent Companies organised a guerrilla war. They refused to
surrender and became the only Allied force between India and New Guinea which defied the enemy.
Bernard James Callinan, AC, CBE, DSO, MC Served as a Lieutenant-Colonel with 26 Australian
Infantry Battalion 2/2nd Independent Company, during the Second World War.
Presentation copy
signed by author & E. Mc. D. Walker? Fine copy. Price:
$145.00
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JOYNT W.D.
To Russia And Back Through Communist
Countries. illus. with frontis. & 33
full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Lothian 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.100. Author, an
Australian VC, gives account of the sights, sounds and impact of the Russian way of life in the
1960s on an ordinary visitor from the West. Include author's views on East & West Berlin, and
Yugoslavia which he also visited. Presentation copy fully
signed by W.D. Joynt. 'Flight
Lieutenant RAAF Les Farrow with best wishes from Donovon Joynt 5th March 1976.
Also signed on title page
W.J.Joynt. Near fine copy. Price: $50.00
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