HMAS Sydney : Loss and Controversy by Tom Frame - 1993

Hodder & Stoughton, Sydney, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Size: 9"-10" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ships & the Sea; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0340584688. ISBN/EAN: 9780340584682. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 44562. . 9780340584682

Hodder and Stoughton Sydney 1993.. 1993. Hardcover. Large 8vo. hardcover. 302pp. index. + b/w plates.very good, light foxing to edges. / very good d/w. .

Hodder & Stoughton, Sydney, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Light age and reading wear to book and dust wrapper. 300 pages. ABE ~ G19-2. Moderate water damage to covers, text unaffected. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; Australia; 1940s; Ships & the Sea. ISBN: 0340584688. ISBN/EAN: 9780340584682. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 56256. . 9780340584682

Rydalmere, NSW, Australia: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. xv, 300pp., plus 24 page unpaginated b/white illustrated section. B/white maps, figures. Book clean. Spine firm, slight lean, bright gilt title there-on. Plain blue boards have a bump to upper foredge corner of rear panel. Leaves clean and unmarked. Colour-art illustrated dustjacket (detail from the painting 'Engagement of Hilfskreuzers, Kormoran and the Australian cruiser Sydney on 19 November, 1941 off the West Australian coast', by Jochin Sachse) dustjacket mildly edge-creased only. From the jacket flap: "The loss of 'Sydney' was Australia's greatest wartime naval loss. Why did Captain Burnett in 'Sydney' bring his ship so close to the 'Kormoran' that he risked a mortal engagement? Why was 'Kormoran' able to inflict so much damage that her ship's company were apparently unable to communicate with assistance ashore and could not save their ship from sinking? Why was the Australian cruiser and… Read More