Aim Straight: A Biography of Admiral Sir Percy Scott the Father of Modern Naval Gunnery
by Padfield, Peter
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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About This Item
E-300: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, UK. 1966. 317 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Percy Scott rendered his greatest service to the British Navy in the field of naval gunnery, which differs materially from artillery practice on land. The battery commander on land can aim and fire his pieces by means of the clinometer with almost mathematical accuracy, even when the target is invisible. The gunnery officer on ship board cannot use the clinometer because his gun platform, the ship, is not steady or exactly level. These considerations and others have led to the dictum that only fools attack forts with ships. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 317 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68175
- Title
- Aim Straight: A Biography of Admiral Sir Percy Scott the Father of Modern Naval Gunnery
- Author
- Padfield, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- E-300
- Date Published
- 1966
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