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CONVOY IS TO SCATTER.
William Kimber, London, 1972, 1st edn., 232pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., maps, line drawings / cartoons in text, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, the tragic story of the fated convoy PQ17 of 36 British and American ships to Russia in June/July, 1942. The author was in command of the senior escort destroyer, HMS Keppel, and relates with all the relevant signals received and sent the story of the conoy, which includes when the convoy was sent the message by the British Admiralty to scatter, allowing most of the merchant vessels to be picked off at will by u-boats or the Luftwaffe, light bump head of spine, edges tanned and a little foxed, dustwrapper: sunned at spine and flap folds, relined at head of spine, very good in a very good dustwrapper,
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GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 20.06 | JP¥ 3070]
Catalogue: WW2 - Navy
Keywords: war ww2 sea navy arctic russia kola murmansk pq17 convoy
MAKE ANOTHER SIGNAL.
Futura, London, 1977, 1st in imprint, paperback, 255pp, map, line drawings and diagrams in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a light hearted look at the history of military and naval communications quoting some of the classic signals from significant dates and occasions, together with details of the signals exchanged during WW2 of the sinking of the French fleet at Oran, the sinking of armed merchant cruiser Rawalpindi, the sinking of aircraft carrier Glorious, the escape from Brest, the sinking of Scharnhorst, the sinking of Hood and subsequently Bismarck, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good plus,
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GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 US$ 12.54 | JP¥ 1919]
Catalogue: WW2 - Navy
Keywords: war ww1 ww2 navy signals
MAKE ANOTHER SIGNAL.
Futura, London, 1977, 1st in imprint, paperback, 255pp, map, line drawings and diagrams in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a light hearted look at the history of military and naval communications quoting some of the classic signals from significant dates and occasions, together with details of the signals exchanged during WW2 of the sinking of the French fleet at Oran, the sinking of armed merchant cruiser Rawalpindi, the sinking of aircraft carrier Glorious, the escape from Brest, the sinking of Scharnhorst, the sinking of Hood and subsequently Bismarck, etc., edges tanned, near fine,
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GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 US$ 12.54 | JP¥ 1919]
Catalogue: WW2 - Navy
Keywords: war ww1 ww2 navy signals humour
SCAPA FLOW.
Pan. London, 2002, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 264pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., in text map, photo pictorial wrappers, in the Pan Grand Strategy series, based on the experiences of hundreds of service personnel, from the lower deck and barrack room as well as the officers' mess, about their experieneces at Scapa Flow during two world wars, WW1 and WW2, with contemporary photo illustrations, lightly rubbed at extrems., light roll and creasing to spine, edges tanned, top cnr. half title clipped, good pluis,
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Catalogue: WW2 - Navy
Keywords: war ww1 ww2 navy