U-boat Operations of World War II: Volume II Tapa dura - 1998

Chatham Publishing, London, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. VI, 312 pages, introduction by author, list of abbreviations, appendices and maps. At the rear of the book there is nine pages of maps showing the various areas that U-Boats had their theatre of operations. Blue coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the top book corners and rubbing to the backstrip. There is a very slight cock to the spine. Illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound), being a reproduction of a painting by Claus Bergen showing a 'Type IXC U-Boat by moonlight in the Caribbean Sea, with a torpedoed tanker burning in the distance', with white and green titles to the front panel and backstrip. A little creasing to the dustwrapper edges and to the dustwrapper corners. " This is the second volume of two volumes covering the career histories of all U-Boats which were commissioned in the Second World War..... the histories of some 1200 vessels are covered, each entry… Leer más