1976, ISBN: 9780002214155

Hardback. Very Good., 3, Australasian Publishing Company, Sydney 1944 Hardcover, 5¼" x 7½", lacking jacket Sun fading to spine cloth. Book in FAIR condition Firs… Meer...

Hardback. Very Good., 3, Australasian Publishing Company, Sydney 1944 Hardcover, 5¼" x 7½", lacking jacket Sun fading to spine cloth. Book in FAIR condition First Australian Edition. Manchester-born 'Syd' Jones served in the British Army as a drummer during World War One, and then joined the merchant navy on trans-Atlantic and later tran-Pacific shipping lines. He joined the little coastal steamer 'Mareeba' as third cook and sailed from Fremantle in May, 1941 bound for Singapore. Lying just ahead, by a coincidence, was HMAS Sydney … but let him tell the his own story. The book has nine illustrations (photos, maps, drawings)., Australasian Publishing Company, Sydney, 1944, 2, Allen Lane, London - first edition, ISBN 0713909277 1976 Hardcover, 9" x 5", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. Jacket flap blurb mounted to early page. Slight lean to spine. GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket Dark-blue cloth-bound boards with silver type to spine, 35 b&w photographs, 8 maps, 3 diagrams, 6 appendices, bibliography, and index. Here is the story of the Convoys SC.122 and HX.229 - one 'turn' in the convoy cycle. This battle was a major turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic but, in many ways, this book could be the story of any of the hundreds that sailed the ocean in these years. One important chapter here throws new light on three controversial aspects of the Battle of the Atlantic - the 'Air Gap', weak escorts, and radio decoding secrets. This chapter alone makes a valuable new contibution to WWII naval history., Allen Lane, London - first edition, ISBN 0713909277, 1976, 2.5, London: Collins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ, fly shadows to endpapers, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Wrap around DJ artwork by Michael Heslop. ; 224 pages; It was the custom of the German Naval Command in World War II to name Allied convoys after the U-Boat commander who made the first sighting report. Kapitanleutnant Johan Kleber sighted convoy JW137, Murmansk bound, as it battered its way through the freezing storms and gloom of an Arctic winter; and so Kleber's Convoy it became. Kleber, with fifteen U-Boats concentrating for the attack, was determined to inflict mortal damage on the convoy of thirty-five merchant ships. The British Vice-Admiral, with twenty-six escort vessels, was determined to get it through. It was to be a fight to the death... ., Collins, 1974, 3<

1974, ISBN: 0002214156

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[EAN: 9780002214155], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 18.0], [PU: Collins], Jacket, The jacket is rubbed and marked.One previous ownership inscription.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are s… Meer...

[EAN: 9780002214155], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 18.0], [PU: Collins], Jacket, The jacket is rubbed and marked.One previous ownership inscription.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services., Books<

1974, ISBN: 0002214156

[EAN: 9780002214155], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 4.1], [PU: Collins], TREW ANTONY KLEBER'S CONVOY, The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the … Meer...

[EAN: 9780002214155], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 4.1], [PU: Collins], TREW ANTONY KLEBER'S CONVOY, The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine., Books<

1974, ISBN: 9780002214155

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Collins, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. The jacket is rubbed and marked.One previous ownership inscription.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier d… Meer...

Collins, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. The jacket is rubbed and marked.One previous ownership inscription.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services., Collins, 1974, 2.5<