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Clayton, Tim, - SEA WOLVES - The Extraordinary Story of Britain's WW2 Submarines,.

Little, Brown, London, 2011, reprint, [xii] inc. maps, 436pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., large format (9.5 x 6 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured endpapers, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a comprehensive account of the development of the Royal Navy's Submarine Service during WW2, relating the history up to WW2, the state preparedness for war, operational use in the North Sea, the effects of depth charges, losses of submarines, the 1940 Norway Campaign, the fall of France and the balance of power in the Mediterranean, patrols from Gibraltar, Malta and Alexandria, the Adriatic and North Africa, successes and failures, the Far East,Singaore and the malacca strait, with details of the early career of Max Horton as a submarine commander in WW1 and Rear Admiral Submarine in 1940, an excellent grounding for his later command of the Western Approaches, with first hand accounts of many of the eccentrics who served in submarines as well as many of the operations, edges tanned, dustwrapper: faintly creased at upper edges of flaps, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,
GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 20.08 | JP¥ 3072] Book number 44259

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