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Beneath Hill 60 -- the Australian miners' secret warfare beneath the trenches of the Western Front
by Davies, Will
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1741669367
- ISBN 13
- 9781741669367
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Vintage (Random House), North Sydney, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. 450 g; (10), 272, (22) pages including advertisements for other books by the publisher. The book has a bibliography, and glossary, with 16 pages of black and white photography. Colour illustrated softcover binding. The book is second-hand, but has only has a reading crease on the spine, and slight crumpling of the bottom of the front panel in the way of damage. This is the untold devastatingly brutal story of the battle underground during the First World War, where men suffocated in the blue grey clay, drowned in the liquid chalk, choked on the poisonous air or died violently in the darkness and foetid air in hand-to-hand fighting. -- Rear panel blurb Size: Trade Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; WW I; ISBN: 1741669367. ISBN/EAN: 9781741669367. Inventory No: 0282640. . 9781741669367
Synopsis
WILL DAVIES is an historian and film-maker. He edited the war diaries of E P F Lynch into the acclaimed and bestselling memoir Somme Mud , and wrote its companion volume, In the Footsteps of Private Lynch. He lives in Sydney
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0282640
- Title
- Beneath Hill 60 -- the Australian miners' secret warfare beneath the trenches of the Western Front
- Author
- Davies, Will
- Illustrator
- Photographic
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1741669367
- ISBN 13
- 9781741669367
- Publisher
- Vintage (Random House)
- Place of Publication
- North Sydney
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- BZDB2 world War 1, engineering, construction, tunnel, campaigns, Western front, Australia, minds (military explosives,) Europe, History Military & Warfare; WW I; Photographic Unbranded ISBN: 1741669367 EAN: 9781741669367 Davies, Will Beneath Hill 60
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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