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Supplement to The London Gazette of Tuesday, 27th January, 1948. Published by Authority, Thursday, 29 January 1948: Operations in Hong Kong from 8th to 25th December, 1941. 1st Ed., 28pp., foolscap format. HMSO. 1948  #67729
[HLMainPic] Despatch of Maj.-Gen. Maltby, late GOC in China, describing the military operations of the Japanese invasion & subsequent fall of Hong Kong in great detail, plus tabulated Summary of Approximate Casualties. VG ex-Foreign Office Lib., bound for the library in paper covd. boards with green cloth backstrip with typed title label to front. VG thus. See illustrations on our website.   £30
Third Supplement to The London Gazette of Friday, 20th February, 1948. Published by Authority, Thursday, 26 February 1948: Report on the Air Operations During the Campaigns in Malaya & Netherlands East Indies from 8th December, 1941, to 12th March, 1942. 1st Ed., 69pp., foolscap format. HMSO. 1948  #67745
[HLMainPic] Despatch of AVM Sir Pail Maltby re air operations at Malaya, Singapore & Hong Kong when overtaken by the Japanese, &c. VG. See illustration on our website.   £25
CREW (F.A.E., FRS) The Army Medical Services, Campaigns, Volume II: Hong Kong, Malaya, Iceland & the Faroes, Libya, 1942-1943, North-West Africa. 1st Ed., xxxvii+537pp., 20 plates, 66 sketch maps & diagrams, 93 tables. VG ex-lib. in dw. HMSO. 1957  #67118
[HLMainPic] Much of value, with excellent photos., maps &c. from the Far East to the Western Desert & Tunisian campaigns. Orig. cloth, VG ex-lib. in dw, & scarce (1000 copies printed). See illustration on our website.   £120
DONNISON (F.S.V.) British Military Administration in the Far East 1943-46. 1st Ed., xviii+483pp., 8 fldg. & 2 sketch maps. VG in dw. HMSO. 1956  #67709
[HLMainPic] Burma, Malaya, Indo-China & Indonesia. Orig. cloth, VG in dw. See illustration on our website.   £45
FARNDALE (Gen. Sir Martin, KCB) History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: The Far East Theatre 1941-46. 1st Ed., xxvi+494pp., 40 photos., 54 maps & diagrams. VG in dw. Brasseys. 2000  #68282
[HLMainPic] Mainly in Burma inc. all main ops., Tiddim Road, Imphal & Kohima, Irrawaddy crossing &c., also Arakan, Chindits &c. Also contains campaigns in Hong Kong, Malaya & Singapore. Excellent history with many interesting appendices. VG in dw. See illustration on our website.   £35
RAINA (Lt.-Col. B.L.) Medical Services: The Campaigns in the Eastern Theatre. 1st Ed., xiii+525pp., 20 plates, 30 maps, num tables. Delhi: Combined Inter-Services Historical Section. 1964  #68046
[HLMainPic] IAMC in the field in Hong Kong, Sarawak, Malaya & Burma: much interesting detail on medical aspects of operations, wounds & sickness. Orig. maroon cloth, VG. See illustration on our website.   £60
STACEY (Col. C.P., OCE, CD) & NICHOLSON (Lt.-Col. G.W.L.) Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. 3 Vols., I: Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain & The Pacific; II: The Canadians in Italy 1943-1945; III: The Victory Campaign: The Operations in North-West Europe 1944-1945. 3rd (corrected), 3rd & 1st Imps., xiii+629pp., col. frontis., 38 photos., 7 fldg. maps, 7 sketches; x+807pp., col. frontis., 53 photos., 25 fldg. maps., ep maps, 6 sketches; xiii+770pp., col. frontis., 39 photos., 14 fldg. maps, ep maps, 49 sketches. Ottawa: Queen's Printer. 1957-1960.  #68547
[HLMainPic] The complete record of Canadian involvement in Hong Kong, Dieppe Raid, Sicily & Italy, & from D Day in Normandy to the German surrender. Lavishly illustrated & mapped. Excellent full red morocco official presentation bindings, gilt to sp. & Canadian national arms to front, red silk end-papers, fine throughout. A lovely set. See illustration on our website.   £225

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