Author: Pack, S. W. C.,
Title: THE BATTLE OF MATAPAN.
Description: Pan, London, 1968, 1st in imprint, paperback, 170pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, [vi] ads., wraparound pictorial cover art (unattrib.), in the British Battles series, account of the battle between the British Mediterranean Fleet and the Italian Fleet in March, 1941, south-west of Crete 100 miles off Cape Matapan, in which the Italian battleship Vittoria Veneto was crippled and three heavy cruisers and two destroyers sunk, ills. HMAS Perth, HMS Orion, Ajax, Formidable, Warspite, Jervis, Hasty, Italian Zara, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, tiny chip fore-edge upper wrapper, very good,

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