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The U-Boat Peril: A Fight for Survival (Cassell Military Classics)
by Whinney, Bob
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- F/F/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0304351326
- ISBN 13
- 9780304351329
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SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: Cassell Miltary Paperbacks.* Binding and cover condition: Stiff card covers, No shelf wear to edges or corners, FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, No tanning. FINE* Illustrations: 32pp. B/w photos.* Pages: 151 pp. text. ix pp. Appendices, Bibliography, Acknowledgesments & Index.* Product Description :-. Whinney served as A/S officer in Duncan, then moved to Cossack - the leader of Vian's flotilla - in which he saw action in the Bismarck operation. After a spell ashore in West Africa, he took over the V & W destroyer Wanderer, and joined Escort Group B1 in the Atlantic and Arctic, and finally served as a D-Day convoy escort. Whinney was one of the highest scoring submarine hunters of WW2. A FINE copy in AS NEW condition.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3453
- Title
- The U-Boat Peril: A Fight for Survival (Cassell Military Classics)
- Author
- Whinney, Bob
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/ND
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- Reprint.
- ISBN 10
- 0304351326
- ISBN 13
- 9780304351329
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 160
- Date Published
- 2000-01-01
- Size
- 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
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