Author: Wilkinson, Burke,
Title: BY SEA AND STEALTH.
Description: Panther, London, 1958, 1st in imprint, paperback, 156pp, maps in text, [iv] ads., #861, coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, a collection of accounts of relatively minor naval operations by stealth, including the German invasion of Norway in 1940, the 1941 disabling of two British capital ships by Italian frogmen in Alexandria harbour, the 1943 attack by British marines on shipping in Bordeax harbour with limpet mines, German use of exploding motor boats and midget submarines against the 1944 Normany invasion force,and several other operations including attacks on Royal Oak, Tirpitz, and in Madagascar and the Pacific, slight slant to spine, a little rubbed and creased at extrems., wrappers lightly soiled, edges tanned, good plus,

Keywords: war ww2 navy norway invasion human torpedoes alexandria queen elizabeth valiant bordeaux cockles commandos royal oak tirpitz midget submarines


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