HMS Intrepid. A Memoir. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
by MACK George
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Kimber,, [1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. One of the best of the I-Class monographs; Mack was a seaman gunner on INTREPID from 1937-40. Here he reconstructs her notable wartime career (minelaying in the North Sea, the Altmark hunt, Dunkirk, Bismarck, the Arctic convoys, PEDESTAL, HUSKY and finally the Aegean where she was sunk in an air raid on Leros in September 1943) which resulted in no fewer than ten battle honours. Includes ROH and bibliography. SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE. Law, 1061.
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- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47265
- Title
- HMS Intrepid. A Memoir. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
- Author
- MACK George
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Kimber,
- Date Published
- [1980]
- Keywords
- naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, warship types, destroyers, i-class, minelaying, altmark, bismarck, arctic convoys, george mack
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