Robertson, Terence,

THE GOLDEN HORSESHOE.

Pan, London, 1970, reprint, paperback, 192pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, account of the WW2 experiences of the German U-boat ace Captain Otto Kretschmer of U-99, active in the Battle of the Atlantic during the 'happy time' from October 1939 until March 1941 when the u-boat was sunk by the destroyers HMS Walker (Capt. Donald Macintyre) and HMS Vanoc, and further account of his continuance of hostilities whilst a prisoner of war, lightly rubbed and creased at exterms., edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 45129

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy u-boat destroyer macintyre u-99 walker pow canada battle atlantic destroyer convoy

Robertson, Terence (preface by Admiral Sir George Creasy, G.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.V.O.,

NIGHT RAIDER OF THE ATLANTIC (previously published as The Golden Horseshoe).

Evans Bros, London, 1981, 210pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper (unattrib.), account of the WW2 experiences of the German U-boat ace Captain Otto Kretschmer of U-99, active in the Battle of the Atlantic during the 'happy time' from October 1939 until March 1941 when the u-boat was sunk by the destroyers HMS Walker (Capt. Donald Macintyre) and HMS Vanoc, and further account of his continuance of hostilities whilst a prisoner of war, upper edge sl. dusty, a few fox marks to edges, dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at extrems., small area surface loss each pastedown, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 33603

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy germany u-boat kretschmer atlantic u-99 destroyer walker vanoc a/s

Robertson, Terence,

THE SHIP WITH TWO CAPTAINS.

New English Library, London, 1974, 1st in imprint, paperback, 176pp, launched in May, 1942, and based with the 8th Submarine Flotilla at Gibralter, HMS (USS) Seraph was commanded by both British and United States captains in her various clandestine roles, lightly rubbed at extrems., spine and wrappers sl. sunned, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41864

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: ww2 sea navy mediterranean gibralter seraph submarine

Robertson, Terence,

THE SHIP WITH TWO CAPTAINS.

New English Library, London, 1974, 1st in imprint, paperback, 176pp, pictorial wraparound cover-art by Paul Wright, launched in May, 1942, and based with the 8th Submarine Flotilla at Gibralter, HMS (USS) Seraph was commanded by both British and United States captains in her various clandestine roles, spine slant and roll, rubbed at extrems., light overall creasing, edges tanned, good,

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Book number: 41865

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: ww2 sea navy mediterranean gibralter seraph submarine

Robertson, Terence,

THE SHIP WITH TWO CAPTAINS.

Four Square, London, 1966, 1st in imprint, paperback, 206pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [ii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrspper, launched in May, 1942, and based with the 8th Submarine Flotilla at Gibralter, HMS (USS) Seraph was commanded by both British and United States captains in her various clandestine roles, roll to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, lacks half title, good,

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Book number: 44592

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: ww2 sea navy mediterranean gibralter seraph submarine

Robertson, Terence,

WALKER RN.

Pan, London, 1958, 1st in imprint, paperback, 205pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., [iii] ads., #G150, coloured pictorial upper wrapper by Peff, the story of Capt. F. J. Walker, CB, DSO***, the Admiraly stated that '...the Battle of the Atlantic...was triumphantly won...(as) a result of the offensive tactics...inspired by the brilliant exploits of one man who did more to free the Atlantic of the U-Boat menace than any other single officer..', the author traces Walker's career from his early days as a midshipman on the battleship HMS Ajax, through his preference for smaller ships and his efforts to become an anti-submarine specialist, which came to fruition in the Battle of the Atlantic in WW2 when he developed the concept of the convoy escort support group which, together with the introduction of new anti-submarine weapons like the 'hedghog' turned the tide against the u-boats. The account continues through the winning of the DSO and three bars to his last voyage in the sloop HMS Starling, ills. include HMS Starling, Wild Goose, Magpie, Stork, Tracker, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 44593

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy battle atlantic escort group convoy osprey stork pelican starling sloop corvette u-boat western approaches max horton

Robertson, Terence,

WALKER RN.

Pan, London, 1966, reprint, paperback, 207pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., [i] ads., pictorial panel upper wrapper by Peff, the story of Capt. F. J. Walker, CB, DSO***, the Admiraly stated that '...the Battle of the Atlantic...was triumphantly won...(as) a result of the offensive tactics...inspired by the brilliant exploits of one man who did more to free the Atlantic of the U-Boat menace than any other single officer..', the author traces Walker's career from his early days as a midshipman on the battleship HMS Ajax, through his preference for smaller ships and his efforts to become an anti-submarine specialist, which came to fruition in the Battle of the Atlantic in WW2 when he developed the concept of the convoy escort support group which, together with the introduction of new anti-submarine weapons like the 'hedghog' turned the tide against the u-boats. The account continues through the winning of the DSO and three bars to his last voyage in the sloop HMS Starling, ills. include HMS Starling, Wild Goose, Magpie, Stork, Tracker, lightly rubbed at tips, small surface chip upper wrapper, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 45130

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy battle atlantic escort group convoy osprey stork pelican starling sloop corvette u-boat western approaches max horton

Robertson, Terence,

WALKER RN.

Pan Books,London, 1969, 3rd imp., paperback, 207pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., [i] ads., pictorial design upper wrapper (unattrib.), the story of Capt. F. J. Walker, CB, DSO***, the Admiraly stated that '...the Battle of the Atlantic...was triumphantly won...(as) a result of the offensive tactics...inspired by the brilliant exploits of one man who did more to free the Atlantic of the U-Boat menace than any other single officer..', the author traces Walker's career from his early days as a midshipman on the battleship HMS Ajax to his last voyage in the sloop HMS Starling, ills. include HMS Starling, Magpie, rubbed with slight surface loss at extrems., edges tanned, sunning to edges upper wrapper, light soiling to wrappers, ink name inside upper wrapper, lacks half title, good,

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Book number: 45668

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy atlantic u-boat

Rohwer, Jurgen,

THE CRITICAL CONVOY BATTLES OF MARCH 1943 - The Battle for HX.229/SC122.

Ian Allan, London, 1977, 1st edn., 256pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., in text plans/charts, light blue cloth lettered in metallic dark blue, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a comprehensive study of the Atlantic convoys and U-boat wolf-pack deployment, with convoys HX229 and SC122 illustrating the complex tactics involved, the chronology of events of both these convoys, details of the merchant ships, escort vessels and u-boats involved, plans of dispositions of the combatants at various stages, etc., small impressed mark top cnr. front free endpaper, faint fox mark to title, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips, spine and upper edges sunned, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40085

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy battle atlantic convoy hx229 sc122 submarine u-boat a/s

Roscoe, Theodore (abridged by the author),

TIN CANS - The True Story of the Fighting Destroyers of World War II (originally published under title of United States Destroyer Operations in World War II).

Bantam, New York, 1968, reprint, paperback, x, 437pp, [i] ad., half tone ills. by Lieut.Comdr. Fred Freeman, coloured pictorial wrappers, edges coloured, an account of US Navy's destroyer operations during WW2, featuring every major and a variety of minor destroyer battles, missions and undertakings which engaged the destroyers and destroyer escorts of DesLant and DesPac during WW2, roll and slant to spine, well tubbed at extrems. with loss to edges of upper wrapper, numerous creases, edges tanned, reading copy only,

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Book number: 45240

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 us navy destroyers

Roskill, Stephen,

CHURCHILL AND THE ADMIRALS.

Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2004, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 351pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 4 in text maps, half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, Winston Churchill had a great affinity for the Royal Navy having had periods at the start of both WW1 and WW2 as First Lord of the Admiralty. When writing the history of the Royal Navy in WW2 the author Stephen Roskill, a Fellow of Churchill College, corresponded with many senior naval figures about Churchill and also had access to the closely guarded official records maintained by the civil service. From these has been able to produce his account of Churchill's relationship with the admirals, edges tanned, fine,

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Book number: 44534

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy churchill admiral

Rossiter, Mike,

ARK ROYAL - The Life, Death and Rediscovery of the Legendary Second World War Aircraft Carrier.

Corgi, London, circa 2007, reprint, trade paperback, 394pp, 24pp coloured and half tone ills., [vi] ads., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the life of HMS Ark Royal, the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier launched in 1938 and one of the most sophisticated weapons at the idsposal of the Admiralty in the early years of WW2, involved in a number of famous incidents before she was torpedoed by a German u-boat in the Mediterranean in 1941 and eventually sunk off Gibraltar, rediscovered by the author lying one kilometre below the surface in 2004, rollled and slanted to spine, rubbed at extfems., one leaf and section of photo illustrations loose but present, small ownersghip[ label, reading copy only,

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Book number: 41614

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy ark royal aircraft carrier

Schaeffer, Heinz (trans. George Edinger and Godfrey Wilson, pref. by Admiral of the Fleet, The Earl of Cork and Orrery, GCB, GCVO, foreword by Nicholas Monsarrat),

U-BOAT 977.

Tandem, London, 1975, 2nd imp., paperback, 190pp, map in text, [ii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), the title of this book is a misnomer as two thirds of the book are the experiences of the author, from his early naval training to his first posting to a submarine in 1941 as a midshipman, patrols in the Atlantic with intermediate visits to Lorient and Brest, promotion and further posting and patrol to the South Atlantic, a Commanding Officers course and eventual command in 1944 of U-977 and in 1945 a final mysterious voyage to the Argentine, spine sunned, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 42026

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy u-boat

Schaeffer, Heinz (trans. George Edinger and Godfrey Wilson, pref. by Admiral of the Fleet, The Earl of Cork and Orrery, GCB, GCVO, foreword by Nicholas Monsarrat),

U-BOAT 977.

William Kimber, London, 1957, pocket edn., 1st in imprint, paperback, 192pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., pictorial upper wrapper by 'Blandford', the title of this book is a misnomer as two thirds of the book are the experiences of the author, from his early naval training to his first posting to a submarine in 1941 as a midshipman, patrols in the Atlantic with intermediate visits to Lorient and Brest, promotion and further posting and patrol to the South Atlantic, a Commanding Officers course and eventual command in 1944 of U-977 and in 1945 a final mysterious voyage to the Argentine, some vertical creasing in spine, a little rubbed at extrems. with sl. flaking at edges of spine, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 42027

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy u-boat

Schaeffer, Heinz (trans. George Edinger and Godfrey Wilson, pref. by Admiral of the Fleet, The Earl of Cork and Orrery, GCB, GCVO, foreword by Nicholas Monsarrat),

U-BOAT 977.

Tandem, London, 1975, 2nd imp., paperback, 190pp, map and diagram in text, [ii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), the title of this book is a misnomer as two thirds of the book are the experiences of the author, from his early naval training to his first posting to a submarine in 1941 as a midshipman, patrols in the Atlantic with intermediate visits to Lorient and Brest, promotion and further posting and patrol to the South Atlantic, a Commanding Officers course and eventual command in 1944 of U-977 and in 1945 a final mysterious voyage to the Argentine, spine sunned, lightly rubbed and creased at extrems., edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 45192

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy submarine u-boat convoy battle atlantic argentine