Author: HENSHAW John
Title: Town Class Destroyers. A Critical Assessment. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Crowood Press, [Marlborough],, [2018]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 fine coloured plates and 16 tinted illustrations in the text; original patterned boards, a near fine copy. Detailed account of the fifty [already obsolete] destroyers supplied to the Royal Navy in exchange for overseas base leases. Collected from three distinct US classes, the refitted RN versions were known collectively as the 'Town'-class. Arguably the most famous was CAMPBELTOWN, expended during CHARIOT, the raid on St. Nazaire.

Keywords: naval, warship monographs, ww2, wwii, royal navy, town class destroyers, john henshaw


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