The Rise and Fall of the Singapore Naval Base, 1919-1942 (Cambridge Commonwealth Series) by W. David McIntyre - 1980-01

Archon, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine In Fine Dj. Not Xlib. No Marks.

E-296: Shoe String Pr Inc. Very Good. 1980. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Archon Books, Hamden, CT. 1979. 289 pgs. Illustrated. 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. If you are looking for a book on the Malaya campaign in WW2, this is not the book. What this book tells is the story of how the Singapore Naval Base came into being. We see the questions of where to build the base, the proposed plan for the base and what was actually built, how the base became a political football, the great battle of how the base was to be defended, and more. This book will help the person reading about the Malaya campaign grasp why the Singapore Naval Base existed in the first place, and is a first rate resource in the study of the Royal Navy between the World Wars as… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Shoe String Pr Inc, 1980-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, sunned dust jacket spine, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders

Shoe String Pr Inc. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!