Author: Macintyre, Donald,
Title: NARVIK.
Description: Evans Bros, London, 1959, 1st edn., 224pp, frontis and 12pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, maps at eps., dark blue cloth gilt, an account of the principal British naval achievements of the ill-fated Norwegian Campaign 1940, where three VC's and a battle against German destroyers were won but where the landed troops eventually had to withdraw, the destroyer HMS Glowworm made a valiant but doomed attack on the German heavy cruiser Hipper and the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and numerous smaller vessels were lost, ills. include HMS Glowworm, Eskimo, Bittern, Punjabi, a littlwe rubbed and bumped at extrems., gilding dull, ink stamp fpd., cnr. torn from 1 leaf (p 217/8, not affecting text), edges rather browned, ink stamp lower edge, no dustwrapper, good plus,

Keywords: war ww2 navy norway narvik trondheim namsos glowworm hipper eskimo bittern punjabi glorious


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