London: Evans Brothers. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Slight creasing to top corner of preliminary leaves. Small bumps to top corners of boards. Dust wrapper is price-clipped. Moderate rubbing to dust wrapper panels, two small heavy patches of rubbing with colour loss on dust wrapper spine. No tears or chips in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper rubbed at edges. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; First printing. 208 pages + plates. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. "This is the drama of 24 hours of war, the revealing story of the sensational break-out of the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau from Brest, their passage through the Straits of Dover and eventual arrival in German waters." - from dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4998
Title: Channel Dash: The Drama of Twenty-four Hours of War
Author: Robertson, Terence
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Evans Brothers
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: (1958)

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