EDWARDS Bernard

The Cruel Sea Retold. The Truth behind Monsarrat's Epic Convoy Drama. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO HG73 VETERAN

Pen & Sword, [Barnsley],, [2009]. 8vo., First Edition; with 17 plates on 8; original black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. THE RECIPIENT IS BELIVED TO BE GEORGE MONK, RADIO OFFICER ABOARD THE DANISH VESSEL EBRO IN CONVOY HG73. An established naval historian retells the stories of three convoys - OG71, HG73 and HG76 - on which Monsarrat drew for his splendid novel. SCARCE.

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Book number: 44078

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, battle of the atlantic, atlantic, gibraltar, convoys, monsarrat, cruel sea, bernard edwards

EDWARDS B.

Marines from the Medway. The Story behind their Memorials in the Medway Towns.

Royal Marines Historical Society, [Southsea,, 1998]. Sm. 4to., with photographs and maps in the text; printed wrappers, comb-bound as issued, a fine copy. Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publications 20.

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Book number: 26325

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: mstock, naval, royal marines, kent, medway, chatham, unit histories, unit history, b. edwards, naval, royal marines, marines, from, medway

EDWARDS Kenneth

The Navy of To-Day. Revised by B. Webster Smith. [Revised Edition. With a Foreword by Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt.] IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Blackie,, [1942]. 8vo., Revised Edition, with frontispiece and plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, wanting front free endpaper; navy cloth, upper board lettered in black, gilt back, blue top, a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. Updated version of the original edition of 1939. Useful for understanding how the RN was presented to the British public during WWII. Law 0633.

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Book number: 29702

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, kenneth edwards

EDWARDS Kenneth

Operation Neptune. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Collins,, 1946. 8vo., First Edition, with several plates and endpaper maps; decorative black cloth gilt, gilt back, covers slightly age-marked at edges else a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-sloiled and frayed at edges. A standard secondary source. Covers the naval component of OVERLORD, the clearing of the Channel ports and Walcheren. Enser, p.290; Law, 0589

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Book number: 31007

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: mstock, naval, ww2, wwii, operation naptune, overlord, d-day, normandy, kenneth edwards

EDWARDS Bernard

They Sank the Red Dragon. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

GPC, Cardiff,, [1987]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 45739

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, merchant navy, welsh ships, welsh merchant ships, u-boats, convoys, atlantic, bernard edwards