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

Schofield, B. B.,

BRITISH SEA POWER - Naval Policy in the Twentieth Century.

B. T. Batsford, London, 1967, 1st edn., 271pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt at spine, top edge col'd, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the author spent a lifetime in the Royal Navy, from Midshipman in HMS Indomitable 1912, Naval Attaché at The Hague and Brussels, command of the cruiser HMS Galatea until 1941, Director of the Trade Division of the Admiralty 1941-3, Chief of Staff at the British Joint Services Mission in Washington and retiring as Vice-Admiral in 1951, he relates the peaks and troughs of British Naval Policy through two World Wars, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems. with sl. surface loss at folds, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 28169

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww1 ww2 navy galatea mediterranean

Schofield, B. B.,

THE RUSSIAN CONVOYS.

Pan Books, London, ND (circa 1985), reprint, trade paperback, 237pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps and plans in text, [ii] ads., pictorial panel upper wrapper (unattrib.), in the Pan Grand Strategy series, the story of the convoys to Russia during WW2, including material drawn extensively from German sources, with detailed accounts of incidents involving PQ13, PQ17, PQ18 and JW51B with tabular analysis of the convoys together with details of the ships sunk and war eqipment shipped by Britain and USA, slight slant to spine, lightly rubbed at tips and slight creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 40062

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy arctic kola murmansk russia convoy escort tirpitz scharnhorst swordfish x-craft xcraft lotus northern pride belfast king george v nairana campania magpie vf45 a/s

Schofield, B. B.,

THE RUSSIAN CONVOYS.

B. T. Batsford, London, 1964, 1st edn., 224pp inc. 16pp half tone photo ills., maps/diagrams in text, blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, decorative headband, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the story of the convoys to Russia during WW2, including material drawn extensively from German sources, with detailed accounts of incidents involving PQ13, PQ17, PQ18 and JW51B with tabular analysis of the convoys together with the details of the ships sunk and war equipment shipped by Britain and the USA. erdges a little tanned, ddustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., faint foxing to reverse, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 45339

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy arctic kola murmansk russia convoy escort tirpitz scharnhorst swordfish x-craft xcraft lotus northern pride belfast king george v nairana campania magpie

Scott, Lt. Cdr. Peter, MBE, DSC*, RNVR,

THE BATTLE OF THE NARROW SEAS - A History of the Light Coastal Forces in the Channel and North Sea, 1939-1945.

Country Life, London, 1945, 1st edn., xii, 228pp, 79 half tone photos and line drawings on 48pp, coloured frontis and 7 other coloured plates by author, maps (each different) at endpapers and in text, numerous small line ills. in text, pale blue cloth lettered in dark blue at spine, lettered and decorated in dark blue upper board, large format about 10 x 8 inches, pictorial dustwrapper, the author, already an accomplished wildfowl artist and writer, joined the Royal Navy serving in the destroyer HMS Broke in the Atlantic until the winter of 1941. When Broke paid off for a long refit Scott, the first lieutenant, was offered command of a steam gunboat which he accepted. Steam gunboats were the largest vessels of Coastal Forces, 150 feet long powered by twin steam turbines and the most heavily armed ships of the navy for their size with 1 x 3" gun, 2 x 6 pounder guns, 2 x twin 20mm cannon and 2 x 21" torpedo tubes. His account of the 'Battle of the Narrow Seas' relates his and many of his colleagues personal experiences in the Narow Seas, including Lt. Cdrs. Hichens and Dickens, and many lesser known officers and other ranks. The Narrow Seas comprised the English Channel and the southern North Sea, where the Coastal Forces, the ML's, MTB's and MGB's and his own steam gunboats took the battle to the enemy in his own coastal waters; includes accounts of the raids on St. Nazaire and Dieppe, and Normandy, photo ills. include MTB 19, 20, 21, 23, 74, 205, 360, 447, 621, 724, MGB 61, 88, ML 117, 145, 150, 230, 903, 1368, SGB 8, 9, etc., lightly sunned and bumped at extrems., edges tanned, ink inscr. half title, dustwrapper: rubbed with slight loss at extrems., chips and nicks to edges and folds, repaired to reverse, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 42438

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy - Coastal Forces, Clandestine Naval Ops and Landing Craft

Keywords: war ww2 navy east coast convoy war channel anglia suffolk lowestoft felixstowe dieppe st nazaire mtb mgb rncf scott hichens dickens channel north sea midge mantis beehive wasp hornet bee aggressive attack

Scott, Lt. Cdr. Peter, MBE, DSC*, RNVR,

THE BATTLE OF THE NARROW SEAS - A History of the Light Coastal Forces in the Channel and North Sea, 1939-1945.

Country Life, London, 1946, 2nd edn., xii, 228pp, 79 half tone photos and drawings on 48pp, coloured frontis and 7 other coloured plates by author, maps (each different) at endpapers and in text, numerous small line ills. in text, pale blue cloth lettered in dark blue at spine, lettered and decorated in dark blue upper board, large format about 10 x 8 inches, pictorial dustwrapper, an accomplished wildfowl artist and writer the author joined the Royal Navy serving in the destroyer HMS Broke in the Atlantic until the winter of 1941. When Broke paid off for a long refit Scott, the first lieutenant, was offered command of a steam gunboat which he accepted. Steam gunboats were the largest vessels of Coastal Forces, 150 feet long powered by twin steam turbines and the most heavily armed ships of the navy for their size with 1 x 3" gun, 2 x 6 pounder guns, 2 x twin 20mm cannon and 2 x 21" torpedo tubes. His account of the 'Battle of the Narrow Seas' relates his and his colleagues personal experiences in the English Channel and the southern North Sea, where the Coastal Forces, the ML's, MTB's and MGB's and his own steam gunboats took the battle to the enemy in his own coastal waters; includes the raids on St. Nazaire and Dieppe, and Normandy, photo ills. include MTB 19, 20, 21, 23, 74, 205, 360, 447, 621, 724, MGB 61, 88, ML 117, 145, 150, 230, 903, 1368, SGB 8, 9, etc., a little rubbed at extrems., several slall patches colour loss to cloth, edges tanned, 2 line ink name/date verso half title, dustwrapper: rubbed with chipping to spine ends. and cnrs. and nicks to edges, restored to reverse, light overall soiling, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 44851

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy - Coastal Forces, Clandestine Naval Ops and Landing Craft

Keywords: war ww2 navy east coast convoy war channel anglia suffolk lowestoft felixstowe dieppe st nazaire mtb mgb rncf scott hichens dickens channel north sea midge mantis beehive wasp hornet bee aggressive attack

Scott, Lt. Cdr. Peter, MBE, DSC*, RNVR,

THE BATTLE OF THE NARROW SEAS - A History of the Light Coastal Forces in the Channel and North Sea, 1939-1945.

Country Life, London, 1945, 1st edn., xii, 228pp, 79 half tone photos and drawings on 48pp, coloured frontis and 7 other coloured plates by author, maps (each different) at endpapers and in text, numerous small line ills. in text, pale blue cloth lettered in dark blue at spine, lettered and decorated in dark blue upper board, large format about 10 x 8 inches, pictorial dustwrapper, an accomplished wildfowl artist and writer the author joined the Royal Navy serving in the destroyer HMS Broke in the Atlantic until the winter of 1941. When Broke paid off for a long refit Scott, the first lieutenant, was offered command of a steam gunboat which he accepted. Steam gunboats were the largest vessels of Coastal Forces, 150 feet long powered by twin steam turbines and the most heavily armed ships of the navy for their size with 1 x 3" gun, 2 x 6 pounder guns, 2 x twin 20mm cannon and 2 x 21" torpedo tubes. His account of the 'Battle of the Narrow Seas' relates his and his colleagues personal experiences in the English Channel and the southern North Sea, where the Coastal Forces, the ML's, MTB's and MGB's and his own steam gunboats took the battle to the enemy in his own coastal waters; includes the raids on St. Nazaire and Dieppe, and Normandy, photo ills. include MTB 19, 20, 21, 23, 74, 205, 360, 447, 621, 724, MGB 61, 88, ML 117, 145, 150, 230, 903, 1368, SGB 8, 9, etc., a little rubbed at extrems., small fray to cloth at tail of spine, edges tanned, dustwrapper: rubbed with chipping to spine ends. and cnrs. and nicks to edges, restored to reverse, light overall soiling, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 44852

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy - Coastal Forces, Clandestine Naval Ops and Landing Craft

Keywords: war ww2 navy east coast convoy war channel anglia suffolk lowestoft felixstowe dieppe st nazaire mtb mgb rncf scott hichens dickens channel north sea midge mantis beehive wasp hornet bee aggressive attack

Sellwood, A. V.,

THE WARRING SEAS (originally published as Dynamite for Hire).

Tandem, London, 1972, 1st in imprint, paperback, 237pp, iii ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the maritime career of Lt. Cdr. Hein Fehler, from his early years as a boy seaman in sailing merchant vessels in the Baltic and further afield, flirtation with the SA and SS, entrance into the Navy and after the outbreak of WW2 appointment as mines officer on the raider HSK2 Atlantis until she was sunk by HMS Devonshire in November 1941, rescue by U-boat and return to France for a spell training and being trained, eventual command in late 1943 of U-234, a milch-cow supply submarine, slight roll and slant to sunned spine, a little rubbed at extrems., light ringmark upper wrapper, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 40063

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 german atlantis armed merchant cruiser raider hsk2 ship16 raiderc raider-c mohr rogge submarine u-boat u-234 hms devonshire vf45