Author: PHILLIPS C .E. Lucas
Title: The Greatest Raid of All. With Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Heinemann,, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 37 plates on 16, 22 illustrations, maps and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Francis Russell Flint. The first and still the best all-round account of Operation CHARIOT, the Combined Operations raid on St. Nazaire in 1942. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS NOW VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.392; Law 0475; Mulholland & Jordan L71.

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, st. nazaire, operation chariot, combined operations, commandos, lucas phillips


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