The Coast Watchers.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

Melbourne: O.U.P. (1946). Thick 8vo. Orig. cloth (slightly shelf-soiled). (xxii 426pp.). With frontispiece 32 full-page plates 6 maps one of which is fold. and illust. endpapers. Inscription on half title-page. Light toning on end-papers and back hinge cracked but holding otherwise a complete copy of the rare 1st edition. NOTE: Story of operations of the Coast Watching Organization in the islands north and north-east of Australia during the war against Japan 1942-1945. Includes a roll of officers and men who served in the Organization.