Author: CHALMERS Rear-Admiral W.S.
Title: Max Horton and Western Approaches. A Biography of Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Hodder & Stoughton,, [1954]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, and maps in the text; blue gilt, gilt device on upper board, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Dustwrapper artwork by C.E. Turner. The greater part concerns Horton's career in WWII; as C-in-C Western Approaches he was ultimately responsible for decisive victory in the Atlantic. An important and readable account. The first edition is increasingly elusive in this condition. Enser, p.266; Law, 0199; NMM II/1 685.

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, battle of the atlantic, western approaches, max horton, w.s. chalmers


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