Author: BACON Admiral Sir Reginald
Title: The Dover Patrol 1915-1917. REMARKABLY BRIGHT SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Description: Hutchinson,, [1919]. 2 vols., 8vo., with 2 portrait frontispieces, titles in red and black, 78 plates, 16 illustrations and plans in the text and 2 large folding maps coloured in outline, endpapers and edges lightly browned; original blue cloth, gilt backs, a remarkably bright, clean copy. The standard history of the legendary naval force, charged with safeguarding the Channel throughout WWI. Written by the commander who led it during most of the critical period of the war, but who was superseded for political reasons before the great operations he had planned (the mine-barrage and the attack on Zeebrugge) could come to fruition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Taffrail ' The Endless Story', pp. 241 et seq. Enser, p.109

Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, royal navy, dover patrol, reginald bacon, admiral bacon,


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