Isbn: 9780701121891 - the blockade busters (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. uk1st.edition.1st.printing/vg hardback in vg dustwrapper.

Original Cloth. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. The boards have some fading to the edges with a little marking to the rear panel and a three inch crease to the top right corner of the front panel. Page edges are browned and spotted. Endpapers are browned with some spotting and the original owners name and date to the front free endpaper - this was Sinclair Burgess who was a friend of my family when I was growing up in Shetland. Pages are lightly browned with a little spotting at the front and back but they are otherwise unmarked. The jacket is a little loose around the edges with some creasing along the right edge of the front panel and browning to the rear panel. Quite heavy yellow spotting to the front and rear flaps and to the reverse. Jacket illustration by Mike Codd. First printing. Codd, Mike (illustratore).…

1st ed. Dust jacket spine a little yellowed. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG price-clipped dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG price-clipped dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Marks to page edges. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm.

Hardback. Recounts one of the greatest sea stories of World War II. It is the story of how George Binney, a 39 year-old civilian working in neutral Sweden when Norway was overrun by the Germans in 1940, set about running vital cargoes of Swedish ball-bearings and special steels to Britain through the blockaded Skagerrak, where German air strength was dominant and where the Royal Navy dare not trespass. Despite Admiralty gloom and in the face of political objections that were overcome by Binney's persistence, five ships carrying a year's supply of valuable materials for the expanding British war industries were successfully sailed to Britain in January 1941.A following attempt was not as successful and ended when six ships were sunk or scuttled. But then came the saga of the Little Ships, the motor gunboats flying the Red Duster that operated out of the Humber to and from the Swedish coast in the winter of 1943/44, defying the strengthened German defenses and the wrath of severe weather. 1976. First edition. A near fine copy with only very light age tanning of the edges. The d/w is unclipped and also near fine and has been covered in a transparent adhesive covering. {"length"=>["22"], "width"=>["14"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}.…

Condizione: Good. Shelfwear to the dustjacket.

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