Author: Reynolds, Leonard C. OBE, DSC (foreword by Admiral of The Fleet Lord Lewin),
Title: DOG BOATS AT WAR - A History of the Operations of the Royal Navy D Class Fairmile Motor Torpedo Boats and Motor Gunboats 1939-1945.
Description: Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2000, 1st in imprint, paperback, x, 289pp, oversize (10.5 x 8 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the development and service of the the Fairmile Co. type 'D' boat, the longer (115ft) semi-hard chine 4 engine boats that came into service in the Spring of 1942, able to withstand heavier seas than earlier types and with a greatly increased armament, with accounts of actions in Norwegian and Home Waters, and the Mediterranean, from Spring 1942 until 1945, and with tables of awards; war losses; flotiilas, the boats they comprised and where based; and a bibliography of sources and index, faint vertical crease in spine, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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