Author:Gibson, Owen

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The Bitter Taste of War

By: Gibson, Owen

Price: NZ$20.25

Publisher: Sydney, Calvert Publishing Co.: [c1968?]

Seller ID: 21870

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Some fading and creasing to spine and covers. No signatures. Some foxing. ; No date [c1968?]. 128 pages. Page dimensions: 178 x108mm. Fiction, World War Two. "After Japanese bullets had toppled Lieutenant Beecroft from the rocky platform halfway up to the Japanese gun position it left Sergeant Randall in charge of the small Australian force . . . and Randall did not believe in wasting lives needlessly." - from blurb on rear cover. [Reference: Flanagan, "Australian Vintage Paperback Guide", p. 192 - "The Calvert Publising Company [. . .] published a considerable amount of fiction, mainly romanc...
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Torment in Eruption

By: Gibson, Owen

Price: NZ$20.25

Publisher: Sydney, Calvert Publishing Co.: [c1968?]

Seller ID: 21872

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Fading to spine. Bookstore rubber stamp on first page.; No date [c1968?]. 128 pages. Page dimensions: 178 x108mm. Fiction, World War Two. "The island of Krell was one of the Japanese hell-holes of the Pacific War. Men held prisoner there had little prospect of surviving, and for women shipped to the camp from Singapore the prospect was worse." - from blurb on rear cover. [Reference: Flanagan, "Australian Vintage Paperback Guide", p. 192 - "The Calvert Publising Company [. . .] published a considerable amount of fiction, mainly romance and war, during the 1950s and 1960s [. . .]"]
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Devils of the Desert Hell

By: Gibson, Owen

Price: NZ$20.25

Publisher: Sydney, Calvert Publishing Co.: [c1968?]

Seller ID: 21873

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Some creasing to spine and covers. No signatures or stamps.; No date [c1968?]. 127, [1 (blank)] pages. Page dimensions: 178 x108mm. Fiction, World War Two. "Jim Deacon learned about the Desert Raiders the hard way, when he went on a mission with them to destroy the New German installation at Fanduh oasis. The Raiders had been told to take a German officer prisoner, but none of them had bargained on catching the greatest prize of the war. When the small force left the blazing wreckage at Fanduh, it had with it Germany's top-ranking commander of the African campaign." - from blurb on rear cover....
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Battleground - The Deeps

By: Gibson, Owen

Price: NZ$20.25

Publisher: Sydney, Calvert Publishing Co.: [c1965?]

Seller ID: 21874

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Some creasing covers. Bookstore rubber stamp on title page.; No date [c1965?]. 128 pages. Page dimensions: 178 x114mm. Fiction, World War Two. "The prettiest of the hapless young women from the infamous Nazi concentration camps were behing shipped to North Africa. It was indelibly tattooed into their flesh that they were to be the slaves of Goering's elite dive-bomber units, the famous and feared Fliegerkorps X." - from blurb on rear cover. [Reference: Flanagan, "Australian Vintage Paperback Guide", p. 192 - "The Calvert Publising Company [. . .] published a considerable amount of fiction, mai...
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Author:Gibson, Owen

The Bitter Taste of War

Torment in Eruption

Devils of the Desert Hell

Battleground - The Deeps