The Watery Maze. The Story of Combined Operations.
by FERGUSSON Bernard
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Collins,, 1961. 8vo., First Edition, with 21 plates on 12, 11 maps in the text and front and rear endpaper maps coloured in outline, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. The best single-volume history to date and a standard reference, covering operations from formation to Port Said in 1956. Enser, p.110; Law, 0456.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25666
- Title
- The Watery Maze. The Story of Combined Operations.
- Author
- FERGUSSON Bernard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins,
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- military, naval, ww2, cohq, combined operations, special forces, unit history, unit histories, bernard fergusson, military, unit histories, the, watery, maze
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