Dickens, Captain Peter, DSO, MBE, DSC, RN, - NIGHT ACTION - MTB Flotilla at War.Purnell Book Services, London, 1974, club edn., 242pp, 8pp half tone ills., diagrams in text, maps at endpapers, black cloth lettered and decorated in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, the wartime experiences of the author, in the destroyer HMS Somali, a dutch vessel Doggersbank at Dunkirk and 1st Lt. destroyer HMS Cotswold until mined on the East Coast in April, 1942. After survivors leave he took over MTB 234, from June 1942 as Senior Officer 21st MTB Flotilla at HMS Beehive (Felixstowe), HMS Mantis (Lowestoft) until December, again at HMS Beehive to end July, 1943, working with MGB's in the North Sea and off the Dutch coast attacking German shipping, edges a little tanned, dustwrapper: a little rubbed with sl. loss at extrems., relined at head of spine, laminate shrinking at front flap fold, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper, GBP 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 US$ 28.45 | JP¥ 4378] Book number 44260is offered by:
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