U-Boats Offshore. When Hitler struck America. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
by HOYT Edwin P
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- Hardcover
- first
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Stein & Day, New York NY,, [1978]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, red boards, upper board lettered in gilt, black cloth back lettered in gilt, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Covers the period January-July 1942 and the autumn of 1943 when U-boats prowled freely off the American coast [Operation DRUMBEAT]. 'Shows the American High Command at its worst' (Law). Enser, p.220; Law 0236.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37254
- Title
- U-Boats Offshore. When Hitler struck America. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- HOYT Edwin P
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Stein & Day, New York NY,
- Date Published
- [1978]
- Keywords
- naval, ww2, wwii, u-boats, us navy, drumbeat, operation drumbeat, edwin hoyt
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