Author: HICHENS, ANTONY.
Title: Gunboat Command The Biography Of Lieutenant Commander Robert Hichens DSO* DSC** RNVR.
Description: Reprint; 8vo; pp. xvii, 348; 16 pages of b/w. photograph plates; 3 maps; index; stiff illustrated wrapper; a fine copy. (Barnsley, South Yorkshire), Pen & Sword Maritime, (2015). The book tells the inspiring account of Hitch's life, starting by briefly describing his youth in Cornwall and Guernsey, his time at Magdalen College, Oxford and his considerable sporting and professional achievements prior to the outbreak of war. He kept a diary of his wartime service, which began in minesweepers. His experiences at Dunkirk. In 1940 he joined Coastal Forces and quickly gained command, first, of MGB 64 and then his own Flotilla of motor gunbaats. He died in action in April 1943.
Keywords: General military history Second World War II United Kingdom Lieutenant Commander Robert Hichens Coastal Forces naval warfare Nazi Germany Navy
Title: Gunboat Command The Biography Of Lieutenant Commander Robert Hichens DSO* DSC** RNVR.
Description: Reprint; 8vo; pp. xvii, 348; 16 pages of b/w. photograph plates; 3 maps; index; stiff illustrated wrapper; a fine copy. (Barnsley, South Yorkshire), Pen & Sword Maritime, (2015). The book tells the inspiring account of Hitch's life, starting by briefly describing his youth in Cornwall and Guernsey, his time at Magdalen College, Oxford and his considerable sporting and professional achievements prior to the outbreak of war. He kept a diary of his wartime service, which began in minesweepers. His experiences at Dunkirk. In 1940 he joined Coastal Forces and quickly gained command, first, of MGB 64 and then his own Flotilla of motor gunbaats. He died in action in April 1943.
Keywords: General military history Second World War II United Kingdom Lieutenant Commander Robert Hichens Coastal Forces naval warfare Nazi Germany Navy
Price: AUD 35.00 = appr. US$ 24.22 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 110889
- Book number: 110889