Author: Turner, John Frayn,
Title: SERVICE MOST SILENT - The [Royal] Navy's Fight against Enemy Mines.
Description: George G. Harrap, London, 1955, 2nd imp., 200pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., other in text figures, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, the story of the department of the Royal Navy responsible for Rendering Mines Safe (RMS), work essential so as to discover how they worked and thus adapt or devise sweeping methods, with details of their work on defusing mines dropped on land and an appendix of 40 personnel decorated for their work on 'rendering mines safe', lightly rubbed at extrems., edges a little tanned and faintly foxed, 6 line ink inscr. front free endpaper, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems. with loss at head of spine, several short edge tears, repaired to reverse, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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