Author: HAGUE Arnold
Title: The Towns . A History of the Fifty Destroyers transferred from the United States to Great Britain in 1940. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Description: [World Ship Society, Kendal,, 1988]. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, very numerous photographs in the text and large folding plan at end; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. The first dedicated study of this class, the acquisition of which proved an invaluable boost to a hard-pressed Admiralty at a crucial period. Good selection of photographs of virtually every vessel balances the enormous publicity accrued elsewhere by HMS CAMPBLETOWN following the St. Nazaire raid.

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, destroyers, town class destroyers, warship classes, atlantic, escorts, hague, arnold hague


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