Fire Across The Desert [Woomera Rockets]
$425
By Peter Morton
Comprehensive history of Australia’s largest weapons project
In stock
Description
- Subtitled: Woomera & The Anglo-Australian Joint Project 1946-1980
- Issued by the Department Of Defence through AGPS
- Profusely illustrated & incredibly detailed history about the once-secret Long Range Weapons project conducted in remote South Australia
- With additional souvenir participation certificate for member of the DoD’s Optics section
- First Edition [Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1989]; xx, 576 pages; blue leatherette, gold titling to spine, spine with shallow crease, lettering a little rubbed, a near-fine copy; in like illustrated dustjacket, rubbed on edges; ISBN: 0 644 06068 9 / 0644060689



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