Wallet 1 of 2 - Miscellaneous published magazines and books collected by Lieutenant John Desmond Peck, 1944-1985

Peck, John Desmond (Lieutenant, b.1922 - d.2002)

- Series 12 - Miscellaneous published magazines and books collected by Lieutenant John Desmond Peck, 1944-1991

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Places	Africa: North Africa Europe: Germany Europe: Greece, Crete
Accession Number	AWM2021.22.77
Collection number	PR03098
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	Wallet
Item count	1
Object type	Book
Maker	Mussolini, Benito Various
Place made	Italy
Date made	1944 - 1985
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copying Provisions	Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Source credit to	This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.

Description

Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX9534 Lieutenant John Desmond "Johnny" "Des" Peck DCM, 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Palestine, Greece, Crete, Italy, Switzerland and England, 1939-c. 2000.

Series 12 contains 2 wallets.

Wallet 1 of 2 – Contains seven books and magazines collected by John Desmond Peck. These publications predominately concern Benito Mussolini.

The publications in this wallet are:

'Storia di un Anno: Il tempo del bastone e della carota', Benito Mussolini, 1944
'Duro a morire! ', Giuseppe Cappa, 1945
‘Storia deglia amori Mussolini-Petacci’, Giorgio Corradini, 1945
‘Il Sergente Franz’, Roberto Mandel, 1945
‘L'insurrezione di Milano’, Giovanni Fugalli, 1945 [includes postcards]
‘Resistenza Vercellese’, c.1955
'After the Battle', no. 47, 1985.

This collection is predominately written in Italian.

This collection contains graphic images. This may cause distress to some viewers.