Sydney: Hachette, 2008. Small quarto, illustrated wrappers, xvii, 412 pp., maps and plates. A fine copy. On 19 November 1941, the pride of the Australian Navy, the HMAS Sydney, fought a close-quarters naval battle with the German armed raider HSK Kormoran, off Carnarvon on the West Australia coast. Both ships..... More
Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. Octavo, blue cloth, xiii, 200 pp., 12 plates and 10 maps. Light spots on inner boards and free-endpapers, dust jacket slight worn, otherwise a near-fine copy. A detailed assessment of Australian-American contact form the late eighteenth century to World War II. More
Rydalmere: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. Octavo, blue cloth hardcover, dust-jacket, xxix, 447 pp., 32 black-and-white figure diagrams. A very fine copy. Written by serving naval officer, Tom Frame, this book is a probe into the two Royal Commissions, their investigations, and findings of Australia's worst peacetime disaster - the collision..... More
