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THE FIGHTING COMMODORES: Convoy Commanders in the Second World War.

THE FIGHTING COMMODORES: Convoy Commanders in the Second World War.

THE FIGHTING COMMODORES: Convoy Commanders in the Second World War.
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THE FIGHTING COMMODORES: Convoy Commanders in the Second World War.

de BURN, ALAN:

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0850525047
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but ffe removed and price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by John Hamilton, illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and clean.Bright,clean,publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,sharp corners,and clean,remaining eps (ffe removed).UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-262pp [paginated] includes 13 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 4pp apiece, between pp86/7 and pp118/9 respectively,2 b/w maps in text,postscript,notes,an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication,contents list/table,publisher's note and a glossary. So much has been written about the great land campaigns of the Second World War that it is easy to forget,if indeed many people today are even aware of the fact,that the nearest Great Britain came to defeat had nothing whatsoever to do with either the British Army or the Royal Air Force.The country was simply on the verge of running out of supplies.There are certainly advantages in being 'a precious stone set in a silver sea',but an island Kingdom depends on its maritime trade to survive and when merchant ships are being sunk quicker than they can be replaced,the moment of crisis can not be far away. This was indeed the situation for month after month during the second and third years of the war and,had the tide not been turned in the nick of time,the country would have been reduced to starvation and the Army and Air Force would have withered on the branch.Indeed Winston Churchill himself was later to write:'The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.' The task of seeing that the merchant ships which carried the vital supplies reached their destinations fell largely on the shoulders of the Convoy Commanders,who were mostly senior but retired Naval officers who had volunteered to return to duty and it is their story which Alan Burn,who sailed on many such convoys, tells in this book.It is a remarkable story and a worthy but long overdue tribute to those very brave men who had in peacetime enjoyed all the privileges of their exalted rank and now, all too often,found themselves cooped up in some 'dirty British coaster.' But for them it is indeed questionable whether we could have survived. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!


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R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Inventario del vendedor #
rja31828
Título
THE FIGHTING COMMODORES: Convoy Commanders in the Second World War.
Autor
BURN, ALAN:
Ilustrador
llus with contemporary b/w photographs.
Formato/Encuadernación
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Estado del libro
Usado - NFINE.
Estado de la sobrecubierta
NFINE.
Cantidad disponible
1
Edición
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
ISBN 10
0850525047
ISBN 13
9780850525045
Editorial
UK.BARNSLEY,S.YORKS.LEO COOPER,1999.
Lugar de publicación
United Kingdom
Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
1999
Palabras clave
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