2007, ISBN: 9780586072745

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.AUSTRALIAN PUBS is the result of a "25,000-mile pub crawl" embarked … Mehr…

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.AUSTRALIAN PUBS is the result of a "25,000-mile pub crawl" embarked upon by Melbourne columnist John Larkins and photographer Bruce Howard. Their journey began one warm Sunday afternoon at Silverton, near Broken Hill, and ended twelve months and many hangovers later at the new Wrest Point Casino in Hobart under the shadow of snow-capped Mount Wellington.They drank in all kinds of pubs, from the little tin shanty in the outback, where the tumbleweed bounces past the ever-open door, to the dim cocktail bar in the city where lovers whisper. They found one pub built from bricks made by ants; another so violent that the licensee lives behind a barbed wire fence and hardly dares enter the bar without his German Shepherd dog; and yet another which is so lavish that it has Sidney Nolan originals in the foyer, a mirror from Mussolini's palace, enough caviar on hand to feed a Cossack regiment, and rooms costing more than $100 a night.And because pubs are for people, they met many unusual characters on both sides of the bar. People like the old-timer who stockwhips a cigarette from his dog's mouth at ten paces and, when he's had a few beers, permits it to use a long cigarette-holder so that he won't flick its nose.People like the tiny Japanese woman who runs one of the toughest pubs in the land - and referees her patrons' fights to prevent kicking and gouging. Or the barman who wears make-up and paints his fingernails black...the publican who prefers to go out dressed as a woman...fighters, strippers, prostitutes, the rich and the poor.With lots of humour, a touch of nostalgia, a little drama and an infallible eye for the unusual and the offbeat, John Larkins and Bruce Howard have produced the thirsty man's guide to Australia., Rigby Limited, 1976, 3, London, England: Grafton Books, 1987. First Grafton Books Paperback Edition. Presumed first printing thus. Mass market paperback. Good. 272 pages. Includes Introduction, A Call to Arms, and Chapters on Attack, Crisis, Withdrawal, and Counterattack. Also includes Epilogue, Source Notes, and an Index, as well as one black and white full page map of Germany, and 31 black and white photographs between pages 159 and 160. Charles Henry Whiting (18 December 1926 - 24 July 2007), was a British writer and military historian and with some 350 books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms. He completed his first novel The Frat Wagon while still an undergraduate at Leeds. Next followed three wartime thrillers: Lest I Fall, which was awarded the George Dowty Prize at the 1956 Cheltenham Literature Festival, which financed Whiting's study tour in North America and led on to a contract with the University of Maryland University College. Whiting worked as a correspondent for The Times, and as a feature writer and correspondent for such periodicals as Education Forum and The Times Literary Supplement, International Review of Linguistics, and Soldier Magazine. Then Whiting's writerly muse began to pour forth novels and non-fiction at an unprecedented rate, initially overwhelming his publishers. Between 1970 and 1976, in a prolific burst, he wrote a total of 34 books. From 1976, he was a full-time author and would average some six novels a year for the rest of his life. He was also a prolific and popular military historian, who developed a niche market for writing about the Second World War from the point of view of the experiences of regular soldiers rather than the military strategists and generals. The story of Operation Northwind, Hitler's surprise attempt to smash the German's way through Alsace Lorraine in January 1945, seen through the eyes of the young men who were "at the sharp end." Few except those who fought it know anything about a second Battle of the Bulge, which cost the Americans and their French comrades-in-arms nearly as many casualties and almost destroyed the alliance. Operation Northwind, planned by the Fuehrer himself, hurled eight German divisions, three of them SS, against the thinly held American line in the Alsace-Lorraine region. Although the U.S. High Command was forewarned by "Ultra" from Bletchley, the Americans were forced to retreat. Eisenhower commanded that Strasbourg, which held a special place in both French and German hearts, should be evacuated but De Gaulle protested. For a few days, while American troops fought for their lives in the snow-bound hills of Alsace-Lorraine, it looked as if the Franco-American alliance might be broken apart and France thrown into something akin to revolution., Grafton Books, 1987, 2.5<

1987, ISBN: 0586072748

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[EAN: 9780586072745], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Grafton Books, London, England], WW2, SECOND BATTLE OF THE BULGE, OPERATION NORTHWIND, ALSACE LORRAINE, ALSACE-LORRAINE, STRASBOURG, C… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780586072745], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Grafton Books, London, England], WW2, SECOND BATTLE OF THE BULGE, OPERATION NORTHWIND, ALSACE LORRAINE, ALSACE-LORRAINE, STRASBOURG, COLMAR POCKET, TASSIGNY, JACOB DEVERS, LECLERC, ALEXANDER PATCH, 272 pages. Includes Introduction, A Call to Arms, and Chapters on Attack, Crisis, Withdrawal, and Counterattack. Also includes Epilogue, Source Notes, and an Index, as well as one black and white full page map of Germany, and 31 black and white photographs between pages 159 and 160. Charles Henry Whiting (18 December 1926 - 24 July 2007), was a British writer and military historian and with some 350 books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms. He completed his first novel The Frat Wagon while still an undergraduate at Leeds. Next followed three wartime thrillers: Lest I Fall, which was awarded the George Dowty Prize at the 1956 Cheltenham Literature Festival, which financed Whiting's study tour in North America and led on to a contract with the University of Maryland University College. Whiting worked as a correspondent for The Times, and as a feature writer and correspondent for such periodicals as Education Forum and The Times Literary Supplement, International Review of Linguistics, and Soldier Magazine. Then Whiting's writerly muse began to pour forth novels and non-fiction at an unprecedented rate, initially overwhelming his publishers. Between 1970 and 1976, in a prolific burst, he wrote a total of 34 books. From 1976, he was a full-time author and would average some six novels a year for the rest of his life. He was also a prolific and popular military historian, who developed a niche market for writing about the Second World War from the point of view of the experiences of regular soldiers rather than the military strategists and generals. The story of Operation Northwind, Hitler's surprise attempt to smash the German's way through Alsace Lorraine in January 1945, seen through the eyes of the young men who were "at the sharp end." Few except those who fought it know anything about a second Battle of the Bulge, which cost the Americans and their French comrades-in-arms nearly as many casualties and almost destroyed the alliance. Operation Northwind, planned by the Fuehrer himself, hurled eight German divisions, three of them SS, against the thinly held American line in the Alsace-Lorraine region. Although the U.S. High Command was forewarned by "Ultra" from Bletchley, the Americans were forced to retreat. Eisenhower commanded that Strasbourg, which held a special place in both French and German hearts, should be evacuated but De Gaulle protested. For a few days, while American troops fought for their lives in the snow-bound hills of Alsace-Lorraine, it looked as if the Franco-American alliance might be broken apart and France thrown into something akin to revolution. First Grafton Books Paperback Edition. Presumed first printing thus., Books<

2007, ISBN: 9780586072745

London, England: Grafton Books, 1987. First Grafton Books Paperback Edition. Presumed first printing thus. Mass market paperback. Good. 272 pages. Includes Introduction, A Call to Arm… Mehr…

London, England: Grafton Books, 1987. First Grafton Books Paperback Edition. Presumed first printing thus. Mass market paperback. Good. 272 pages. Includes Introduction, A Call to Arms, and Chapters on Attack, Crisis, Withdrawal, and Counterattack. Also includes Epilogue, Source Notes, and an Index, as well as one black and white full page map of Germany, and 31 black and white photographs between pages 159 and 160. Charles Henry Whiting (18 December 1926 - 24 July 2007), was a British writer and military historian and with some 350 books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms. He completed his first novel The Frat Wagon while still an undergraduate at Leeds. Next followed three wartime thrillers: Lest I Fall, which was awarded the George Dowty Prize at the 1956 Cheltenham Literature Festival, which financed Whiting's study tour in North America and led on to a contract with the University of Maryland University College. Whiting worked as a correspondent for The Times, and as a feature writer and correspondent for such periodicals as Education Forum and The Times Literary Supplement, International Review of Linguistics, and Soldier Magazine. Then Whiting's writerly muse began to pour forth novels and non-fiction at an unprecedented rate, initially overwhelming his publishers. Between 1970 and 1976, in a prolific burst, he wrote a total of 34 books. From 1976, he was a full-time author and would average some six novels a year for the rest of his life. He was also a prolific and popular military historian, who developed a niche market for writing about the Second World War from the point of view of the experiences of regular soldiers rather than the military strategists and generals. The story of Operation Northwind, Hitler's surprise attempt to smash the German's way through Alsace Lorraine in January 1945, seen through the eyes of the young men who were "at the sharp end." Few except those who fought it know anything about a second Battle of the Bulge, which cost the Americans and their French comrades-in-arms nearly as many casualties and almost destroyed the alliance. Operation Northwind, planned by the Fuehrer himself, hurled eight German divisions, three of them SS, against the thinly held American line in the Alsace-Lorraine region. Although the U.S. High Command was forewarned by "Ultra" from Bletchley, the Americans were forced to retreat. Eisenhower commanded that Strasbourg, which held a special place in both French and German hearts, should be evacuated but De Gaulle protested. For a few days, while American troops fought for their lives in the snow-bound hills of Alsace-Lorraine, it looked as if the Franco-American alliance might be broken apart and France thrown into something akin to revolution., Grafton Books, 1987, 2.5<

1987, ISBN: 9780586072745

London, UK.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1987. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The book is in very good condition, minor shelf rubbing, slight cre… Mehr…

London, UK.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1987. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The book is in very good condition, minor shelf rubbing, slight crease to spine from reading, text inside appears clean and clear throughout. 'Operation Northwind fills a major gap in the history of World War Two, telling its remarkable story through the eyes of the men who were at the sharp end of a conflict whose prevaricating leadership cost many young soldiers their lives before the eventual Allied victory.' 272 pages. 4.25 x 6.9 inches. ., HarperCollins Publishers, 1987, 3<

1987, ISBN: 0586072748

[EAN: 9780586072745], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: HarperCollins Publishers, London, UK.], The book is in very good condition, minor shelf rubbing, slight crease to spine from read… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780586072745], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: HarperCollins Publishers, London, UK.], The book is in very good condition, minor shelf rubbing, slight crease to spine from reading, text inside appears clean and clear throughout. 'Operation Northwind fills a major gap in the history of World War Two, telling its remarkable story through the eyes of the men who were at the sharp end of a conflict whose prevaricating leadership cost many young soldiers their lives before the eventual Allied victory.' 272 pages. 4.25 x 6.9 inches. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall, Books<