NARVIK AND AFTER - A study of the Scandinavian Campaign.
by STRABOLGI,RN., LORD:
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- Hardcover
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,5th thousand.VG/VG-.No date but circa 1941, from Dockyard (Devonport) school prize bookplate to front paste-down.Apart from prize bookplate,no owner inscrptn and no price- clip to dw/dj.B/w part photographic dw/dj with red,blue and white design.Back panel dw/dj slightly grubbed.All edges creased with some minimal chipping and rubbing to all corners.Head+foot of dw/dj spine/backstrip also rubbed,nicked with some minimal loss. Fore-edges slightly aged and dust-soiled.Blue cloth boards with black ink stamped letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers.Contents bright,tight and clean.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,216pp includes a foreword,62 b/w photographs,5 b/w maps and appendices(3). Lord Strabolgi,RN.,formerly of the Admiralty War Staff and Assistant Chief of Staff,Gibraltar,with his wide naval knowledge and experience,here gives us, authoritatively,the first connected account of the Scandinavian operations.Many of the facts have been supplied by the Ministry of Information,Admiralty,War Office and Air Ministry,and others by Norwegians who were eye-witnesses of the German aggression,helped to organize their country's resistance,and took part in the heroic struggle against overwhelming force.Apart from the historical importance of this book,and the graphic accounts of the operations,it describes in full detail the brilliantly fought naval actions at Narvik and the campaign for the recapture of Trondheim.The author also examines the causes of the initial failure to eject the Germans from Norway,and the technical lessons to be learnt from this.Lord Strabolgi,who has made a lifelong study of strategy,describes the importance of the Norwegian coast in any war in which the British Empire may be engaged,and exposes the Nazi plans which are now (then) in process of frustration. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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- NARVIK AND AFTER - A study of the Scandinavian Campaign.
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- STRABOLGI,RN., LORD:
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- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,5th thousand.
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- LONDON.HUTCHINSON,nd.
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- 0.00 lbs
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- q52.NAVAL/MILITARY.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,5th thousand.No ISBN.RN naval history_WW2.RN_NARVIK_TRONDHEIM_WW2_GERMANY_NORWAY.Alpine troops_WW2_NORWAY.HMS COSSACK.HMS FORRESTER_SCHARNHORST_HIPPER.HMS REKNOWN.SE.Books new,used,signed,rare.COND DESTROYER FLOTILLA.
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