Editore: Harrisburg, PA : Stackpole Books, 1984
ISBN 10: 0811709299 ISBN 13: 9780811709293
Da: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 246 pages; Description: ix, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography: p. 226-246. Subjects: Shipwrecks 1 Kg.
Editore: Harrisburg, PA : Stackpole Books, 1984
ISBN 10: 0811709299 ISBN 13: 9780811709293
Da: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlanda
Prima edizione
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 246 pages; Description: ix, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography: p. 226-246. Subjects: Shipwrecks 1 Kg.
Editore: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, London, 1957
Da: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Jacket by Curl (illustratore). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket, some rubbing and small loss to top and bottom of spine, corners and folds rubbed, slight lean, some slight offsetting to endpapers, some slight dust staining to back jacket. Not price clipped (16/-), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 184pp. An authoritative account of the sinking, on May 7th 1915 of the Cunard liner Lusitania. Nearing the end of her voyage from New York, the passenger liner was torpedoed and sunk by a German U boat, U-20, causing the deaths of 1198 passengers and crew. 128 American passengers were lost, and the outrage felt in the US was a contributing factor in the American decision to join the Allies two years later in 1917. Adolph August Hoehling (1914-2004), was a writer and military historian and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. It was his experience as a lieutenant commander of the Armed Guard on merchant vessels that provided inspiration for his books on naval history and subsequent memoirs.