Author: Macintyre, Donald Captain DSO, DSC, RN,
Title: U-BOAT KILLER.
Description: Seeley Service and Co., London, 1976, 1st in imprint, 176pp, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, first published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1956, an account of destroyer actions in the Battle of the Atlantic by one who took part in it from the beginning to the end, the ships of the escort groups the author commanded accounted for seven U-Boats including U99, the command of Otto Kretschmer; also includes experience and comments of the use of Coastal Command in the early stages of the battle, edges tanned, sl. rubbing to head of spine of dustwrapper:, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 navy destroyer frigate escort submarine u-boat battle north atlantic convoy freighter merchant ships hms venomous hearty hesperus walker bickerton 5th escort group b2 coastal command hedgehog a/s


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