U-48. The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War. [First English Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by KUROWSKI Franz
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Frontline, [Barnsley],, [2012]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 30 plates on 16; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first comprehensive account of 'Vaddi' Schultze and U-48; by August 1941 she had sunk no fewer than 56 merchant vessels and one corvette. Both U-boat and commander survived the war: U-48 was scrapped in 1945; Schultze died in 1987 at the age of 78. First published in Germany in 2007.
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- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- U-48. The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War. [First English Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- KUROWSKI Franz
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frontline, [Barnsley],
- Date Published
- [2012]
- Keywords
- naval, ww2, wwii, kreigsmarine, u-boats, submarines, atlantic, u-48, vaddi schultze, franz kurowski
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