The Battle of the Narrow Seas. A History of the Light Coastal Forces in the Channel and North Sea, 1939-1945 by SCOTT, Lt. Cdr. Peter - 1945.

London: Country Life, 1945. First edition. Hard cover. Published London: Country Life, 1945. 4to., 7 1/2" x 10", xii+228pp., illustrated color frontis and color plates reproduced from paintings by the author, b/w plates, maps, charts, map endpapers. Pale green cloth with black titles. English torpedo boats and the fight for control of the English Channel and the southern North Sea during WWII. Fade to the spine cloth, two small nicks. Very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.

London: Country Life Limited, 1945.. First edition. Large 8vo. xii, 228 pp. Publisher's blue-grey cloth, blue lettered to the spine and upper board with a matching illustration to the upper cover, dust jacket, inscribed on the half title "To Commander Giddy with grateful thanks for all his helpful advice & co-operation. from Peter Scott / November 1945". Frontispiece and 7 plates in colour plus 48 pages of black and white illustrations, many photographic, and further illustrations and charts in the text. A little wear and tear to the jacket edges, very good overall. Commander Osman Cyril Horton Giddy (1900-80) served in the Royal Navy as a young man, earning a D.S.C. for service during a raid on Kronstadt in 1919. He was stationed at HMS Beehive, Felixstowe in the Second World War and was assigned the compllation of a monthly review of British Coastal Forces amongst other duties. Scott mentions Giddy on p. 125 of the book, praising him for his "comprehensive" studies of… Read More