Macintyre, Donald,

THE BATTLE FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN.

Pan Books, London, 1970, 1st in imprint, paperback, 234pp, 4pp half tone ills., maps in text, [vi] ads., coloured wraparound pictorial wrappers, in the 'British Battles' series, from May 1940 to June, 1943 the Royal Navy battled to control the Mediterranean, covers the convoys, Taranto, Matapan, Greece and Crete and the support of and raids from Malta, spine sun-bleached, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 44232

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 sea navy mediterranean convoy malta pedestal taranto matapan greece crete a/s

Macintyre, Donald,

THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC.

Pan, London, 1969, 1st in imprint, paperback, 190pp, 8pp half tone ills., maps in text, [ii] ads., coloured wraparound pictorial wrappers (unattrib.), in the 'British Battles' series, 'the longest and most vital battle of WW2' was the battle against the u-boats from 1939 to 1943. This account, written by a naval historian, veteran of the battle and one-time Royal Navy Destroyer escort group Commander, makes additional use of extracts from log-books of naval convoy escorts and of u-boat commanders, slight slant to spine, a litte rubbed at extrems., old ink privces upper and lower wrappers deleted, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 45119

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 sea navy battle north atlantic submarine u-boat convoy merchant freighter escort sloop corvette frigate destroyer

Macintyre, Donald,

THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC.

Pan Books, London, 1971, reprint, paperback, 190pp, 8pp half tone ills., maps in text, [ii] ads., coloured wrap-around pictorial wrappers (unattrib.), in the 'British Battles' series, 'the longest and most vital battle of WW2' was the battle against the u-boats from 1939 to 1943. This account, written by a naval historian, veteran of the battle and one-time Royal Navy Destroyer escort group Commander, makes additional use of extracts from log-books of naval convoy escorts and of u-boat commanders, light vertical creasing to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 45187

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 sea navy battle north atlantic submarine u-boat convoy merchant freighter escort sloop corvette frigate destroyer

Macintyre, Donald,

THE BATTLE FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN.

Pan Books, London, 1970, 1st in imprint, paperback, 234pp, 4pp half tone ills., maps in text, [iv] ads., coloured wraparound pictorial wrappers, in the 'British Battles' series, from May 1940 to June, 1943 the Royal Navy battled to control the Mediterranean, covers the convoys, Taranto, Matapan, Greece and Crete and the support of and raids from Malta, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 45210

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 sea navy mediterranean convoy malta taranto matapan greece crete forcek

Macintyre, Donald,

THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC.

Pan Books, London, 1971, reprint, paperback, 190pp, 8pp half tone ills., maps in text, [ii] ads., coloured wrap-around pictorial wrappers (unattrib.), in the 'British Battles' series, 'the longest and most vital battle of WW2' was the battle against the u-boats from 1939 to 1943. This account, written by a naval historian, veteran of the battle and one-time Royal Navy Destroyer escort group Commander, makes additional use of extracts from log-books of naval convoy escorts and of u-boat commanders, rubbed at exxtrems., numerous light creases to wrappers, edges tanned, good,

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Book number: 45236

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 sea navy battle north atlantic submarine u-boat convoy merchant freighter escort sloop corvette frigate destroyer

Macintyre, Donald,

THE BATTLE FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN.

Batsford, London, 1964, 1st edn., half tone photo frontis, 216pp inc.22pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt at spine, decorative headband, upper edge coloured, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, from May 1940 to June 1943 the Royal Navy battled to control the Mediterranean, and attempt to deny the Italian army and then the Afrika Korps their lifeline of suppiy to North Africa from across the Mediterranean. Against this background the author relates the Royal Navy's support for Greece and Crete until their evacuation, continuing support for the last remaining British base of Malta in the face of horrendous losses in ships and aircraft (including Operations Vigorous and Pedestal), individual actions including the surface fleet action of the Battle of Cape Matapan, the Fleet Air Arm raid on Taranto, the successful attack by Italian human torpedos at Alexandria, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned and faintly foxed, light foxing to endpapers and prelims., dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., light foxing mainly to reverse, a few small marks, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 45354

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy mediterranean convoy malta pedestal vigorous harpoon battle taranto matapan greece crete forcek

Macintyre, Donald,

THE BATTLE FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN.

Batsford, London, 1964, 1st edn., half tone photo frontis, 216pp inc.22pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt at spine, decorative headband, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, from May 1940 to June 1943 the Royal Navy battled to control the Mediterranean, and attempt to deny the Italian army and then the Afrika Korps their lifeline of suppiy to North Africa from across the Mediterranean. Against this background the author relates the Royal Navy's support for Greece and Crete until their evacuation, continuing support for the last remaining British base of Malta in the face of horrendous losses in ships and aircraft (including Operations Vigorous and Pedestal), individual actions including the surface fleet action of the Battle of Cape Matapan, the Fleet Air Arm raid on Taranto, the successful attack by Italian human torpedos at Alexandria, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, headband bleached, edges tanned and a little foxed, ednpapers a little tanned, dustwrapper: price clipped, rubbed with small chip head of spine and slight loss to extrems., slight surface loss to flap folds, very good in a good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 45355

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy mediterranean convoy malta pedestal vigorous harpoon battle taranto matapan greece crete forcek

Macintyre, Donald Captain DSO, DSC, RN,

U-BOAT KILLER.

Seeley Service and Co., London, 1976, 1st in imprint, 176pp, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, first published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1956, an account of destroyer actions in the Battle of the Atlantic by one who took part in it from the beginning to the end, the ships of the escort groups the author commanded accounted for seven U-Boats including U99, the command of Otto Kretschmer; also includes experience and comments of the use of Coastal Command in the early stages of the battle, cocked, rubbed and a little bumped at extrems., dustwrapper: price clipped, a little rubbed at extrems. with small chip tail of upper hinge, internally repaired, good plus in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32831

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy destroyer frigate escort submarine u-boat battle north atlantic convoy freighter merchant ships hms venomous hearty hesperus walker bickerton 5th escort group b2 coastal command hedgehog a/s

Macintyre, Donald Captain DSO, DSC, RN,

U-BOAT KILLER.

Seeley Service and Co., London, 1976, 1st in imprint, 176pp, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, first published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1956, an account of destroyer actions in the Battle of the Atlantic by one who took part in it from the beginning to the end, the ships of the escort groups the author commanded accounted for seven U-Boats including U99, the command of Otto Kretschmer; also includes experience and comments of the use of Coastal Command in the early stages of the battle, edges tanned, sl. rubbing to head of spine of dustwrapper:, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32832

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy destroyer frigate escort submarine u-boat battle north atlantic convoy freighter merchant ships hms venomous hearty hesperus walker bickerton 5th escort group b2 coastal command hedgehog a/s

Macintyre, Donald Captain DSO, and two bars, DSC, RN,

U-BOAT KILLER.

Corgi, London, 1976, 1st in imprint, paperback,176pp, coloured wraparound pictorial wrappers, account of destroyer actions in the Battle of the Atlantic; the ships of the escort groups the author commanded accounted for seven U-Boats including U99, the command of Otto Kretschmer; also includes experience and comments of the use of Coastal Command in the early stages of the battle, pictorial wrappers by Mike Trim, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 45120

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy destroyer frigate escort submarine u-boat battle north atlantic convoy freighter merchant ships hms venomous hearty hesperus walker bickerton 5th escort group b2 coastal command hedgehog

Macintyre, Captain Donald, DSO**, DSC, RN,

FIGHTING ADMIRAL - The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Somerville, GCB, GBE, DSO.

Evans Brothers, London, 1961, 1st edn., 270pp, half tone frontis portrait, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, maps at endpapers, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, an account of the life and naval career of Admiral Sir James somerville, who's experience included that of Fleet Wireless Officer at Gallipoli, between the wars as Executive Officer and then Captain of a succession of battleships in the Mediterranean Fleet, on receiving his Flag as Rear Admiral (Destroyers) of that Fleet, Command-in-Chief of the East Indies Station after which he was temporarily retired from the Royal Navy because of ill-health but was brought back in WW2 to command Force 'H' in the Mediterranean and then Command in Chief of the Eastern Fleet, seeing out WW2 in Washington as Head of the British Naval Mission, tiny bump lower tip upper board, edges tanned and faintly foxed, dustwrapper: price clipped, rubbed with slight loss at extrems., relined to reverse, numerous tiny edges creases, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 45353

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww1 ww2 navy somerville mediterranean destroyers eastern fleet

Macintyre, Donald,

NARVIK.

Pan, London, 1973, reprint, paperback, 238pp, 8pp half tone photo ills, maps in text, [ii] ads., wraparound coloured pictorial wrapperst, in the British Battles Series, an account of the principal British naval achievements of the ill-fated Norwegian Campaign 1940, where three VC's and a battle against German destroyers were won but where the landed troops eventually had to withdraw, the destroyer HMS Glowworm made a valiant but doomed attack on the German heavy cruiser Hipper and the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and numerous smaller vessels were lost, ills. include HMS Glowworm, Bittern, Punjabi, edges tanned, near fine,

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Book number: 44518

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: war ww2 navy norway narvik trondheim namsos glowworm hipper glorious bittern punjabi

Maher, Brendan A.,

A PASSAGE TO SWORD BEACH - Minesweeping in the Royal Navy.

Naval Insitute Press, Annapolis, USA, ND (copyright 1996), US edn., xviii, 246pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, 10 pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, [ii] notes, brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the experiences of a young naval officer who joined the Royal Navy as a rating at the age of 18 in 1942, after training at HMS Raleigh he was selected as a CW candidate and served as an Ordinary Seaman in the light cruiser HMS Cardiff until July 1943 when he went to HMS King Alfred for officer training, HMS Lochinvar for minesweeper training and then in January 1944 joined the Halcyon class minesweeper HMS Jason where, as a Midshipman, he was obliged to keep a journal which is a valuable source document for his book especially as he also quotes from his contemporaneous diary and the two accounts of identical events are revealing. Subsequently he was appointed to Coastal Forces as Sub-Lieut. in HM ML137 for shallow water minesweeping that led the way to Sword Beach for the Normandy invasion, sweeping the approaches to and the ports of Cherbourg and Brest (part only) of mines, escorting US Atlantic convoys in the English Channel, escort and patrol; of the war channel until sent minesweeping again, this time for pressure mines in the Rotterdam estuary after VE day when he was seriously wounded, at every stage recording the training and daily experiences in such detail that explains precisely what was involved, as a resident in USA since the mid-1950's and with a US publisher he has explained the background to many of the naval traditions and much of the naval terminology for a US readership, a valuable record and one which, for some unknown reason, does not seem to have been picked up by any publisher for a British edition, slightly cocked, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, crease lower flap, very good in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 42631

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy - RN Patrol Service, Mines and Minesweeping

Keywords: war ww2 navy rnps rncf hms cardiff king alfred midshipman sub-lt minesweeping mms84 fleet sweeper halycon jason 1st minesweeping hmml 137 fairmile 5th ML flotilla coastal forces lochinvar sword beach rotterdam estuary pressure oyster mines contact magneti

Maher, Brendan A.,

A PASSAGE TO SWORD BEACH - Minesweeping in the Royal Navy.

Naval Insitute Press, Annapolis, USA, ND (copyright 1996), US edn., xviii, 246pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, 10 pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, [ii] notes, brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, photo pictorial dustwrapper, the experiences of a young naval officer who joined the Royal Navy as a rating at the age of 18 in 1942, after training at HMS Raleigh he was selected as a CW candidate and served as an Ordinary Seaman in the light cruiser HMS Cardiff until July 1943 when he went to HMS King Alfred for officer training, HMS Lochinvar for minesweeper training and then in January 1944 joined the Halcyon class minesweeper HMS Jason where, as a Midshipman, he was obliged to keep a journal which is a valuable source document for his book especially as he also quotes from his contemporaneous diary and the two accounts of identical events are revealing. Subsequently he was appointed to Coastal Forces as Sub-Lieut. in HM ML137 for shallow water minesweeping that led the way to Sword Beach for the Normandy invasion, sweeping the approaches to and the ports of Cherbourg and Brest (part only) of mines, escorting US Atlantic convoys in the English Channel, escort and patrol; of the war channel until sent minesweeping again, this time for pressure mines in the Rotterdam estuary after VE day when he was seriously wounded, at every stage recording the training and daily experiences in such detail that explains precisely what was involved, as a resident in USA since the mid-1950's and with a US publisher he has explained the background to many of the naval traditions and much of the naval terminology for a US readership, a valuable record and one which, for some unknown reason, does not seem to have been picked up by any publisher for a British edition, faint marks upper edge and slight mark lower board, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 42632

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy - RN Patrol Service, Mines and Minesweeping

Keywords: war ww2 navy rnps rncf hms cardiff king alfred midshipman sub-lt minesweeping mms84 fleet sweeper halycon jason 1st minesweeping hmml 137 fairmile 5th ML flotilla coastal forces lochinvar sword beach rotterdam estuary pressure oyster mines contact magneti

Mallalieu, J. P. W.,

VERY ORDINARY SEAMAN.

Panther, London, 1965, reprint, paperback, 254pp, line drawing in text, [i] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a work of fiction but closely based on the author's experiences during WW2, it has been described by a number of reviewers as the finest account of war at sea ever written, 'a story of stark unrelenting realism'...'a portrayal of real men engaged in the holocaust of war', rubbed at extrems., flakin g to edges of spine, light creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, spine relined, good plus,

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Book number: 45239

Catalogue: WW2 - Navy

Keywords: ww2 war fiction navy destroyer