Green Armour by Osmar White - 1945

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Melbourne, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Second impression of the First Edition. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 287 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are lightly toned throughout. Edges browned slightly. The book has been read and it may have some creases but is sound overall. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. The author, Osmar White, was a New Zealand-born, Australian journalist with The Herald and Weekly Times during the Japanese invasion of Papua New Guinea in 1942, and became a war correspondent and embedded journalist with the Australian forces there. Together with famed Australian war photographer, Damien Parer, and famed war correspondent, Chester Wilmot, he covered the Kokoda Track Campaign, detailing the… Read More

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1945. 1st edition. Nice Copy. 8vo.. orig. cloth viii + 246pp., ep maps, Fighting the Japanese in New Guinea. One of the best Australian Wartime accounts. No dust jacket but a nice copy in bright green boards