Author: SMITH P.C.
Title: Eagle's War. The War Diary of an Aircraft Carrier. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Crecy Books,, [1995]. 8vo., First Edition, with 46 plates on 24 and a full-page chart in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by E. Tufnell. Moving account of the famous carrier, told through eye-witness accounts and supplemented by a well-chosen selection of rare photographs (mostly private and almost all previously unpublished). Covers her story from commencement of hostilities to her loss with Operation PEDESTAL.

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, fleet air arm, naval aviation, aircraft carriers, eagle, mediterranean, malta convoys, pedestal


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