Kleber's Convoy
by Trew, Antony
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0002214156
- ISBN 13
- 9780002214155
- Seller
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Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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About This Item
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... .
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- Bookseller
- Books in Bulgaria
(BG)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28481
- Title
- Kleber's Convoy
- Author
- Trew, Antony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0002214156
- ISBN 13
- 9780002214155
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1974
- Bookseller catalogs
- 20th Century Warfare;
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