Large piece missing from front panel and front flap of dust-jacket, with loss of the last few lines of text from the blurb on the front flap. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; ix, [1], 269, [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 17 illustrations on 9 plate leaves. 11 maps within the pagination. Grey cloth boards with blue and white on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 213 x 131mm. Illustrated endpapers. Military history, World War Two. "The most highly decorated unit of the Second A.I.F. was in action in so many campaigns that a great deal of the drama of the conflict as experienced by Australian soldiers is encompassed in one volume. They went through the Hell of Tobruk, blasted their way to El Alamein and stalked through the rotting jungles of New Guinea and Tarakan where a Japanese with a machine gun seemed to lurk behind every tree." - from dust-jacket blurb. ;