Ion Driess (3 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The dust jacket has some wear, with a few tears on the edges, foxing, scuffs and fading. The page edges are well tanned and foxed. The pages are lightly tanned and foxed. There is a photographic page which has a name inscirption from a previous owner, and is seperating from the binding. 258 pages. Eighteenth Edition. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Bright red boards. Corners are sharp. Frontispiece shows white Egyptian terrier dog, Horrie peeking out from a French Vichy Tank. Boards have some light soiling/discoloration only visible in certain light. Spine has one minor soil mark under gilt title. Top and bottom of spine are free from tears and rubbing, but they both look puckered. Binding is square and tight. End papers are free from marks. Some light tanning around glue lines of paste downs. Uneven fore edge. Great condition. From Wikipedia: Horrie, an Egyptian terrier, was befriended as a puppy by Australian soldier Private Jim Moody when he was stationed in the Ikingi Maryut area of Egypt in 1941.The dog became the unofficial mascot of Moody's unit, the 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion, and followed them as they moved around the Middle East and Greece during their various campaigns. According to the Australian War Memorial, Horrie was described by his owner as being "intelligent and easily trained", and he was employed as an air sentry, alerting troops to approaching enemy aircraft.[2] He was promoted to the rank of corporal,[1] and during the evacuation of Greece, Horrie was aboard the troopship Costa Rica when it was sunk. He managed to survive, though, and later made it to Crete when he was subsequently wounded by a bomb blast. In 1942, after further service in Syria as part of the Allied garrison, Horrie was brought back to Australia when Moody was repatriated. In order to get around stringent quarantine laws which would have prevented him from bringing Horrie back, Moody smuggled the dog home in a canvas bag, which was reinforced with wooden slats so that the dog could breathe.[2] In 1945, after Horrie came to public attention following the publishing of a book by Ion Idriess about Horrie's exploits, Moody was ordered by quarantine officials to surrender Horrie to be put down.[2] It remains uncertain as to whether this occurred. It is believed that the dog was destroyed on 12 March 1945,[2] although according to author Anthony Hill, in his book Animal Heroes it was claimed that Horrie survived after Moody substituted him with another dog from the pound, who was destroyed in Horrie's place, and that Horrie lived out his natural life near Corryong, in rural Victoria.[.