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The Devil's Device - The story of the invention of the torpedo.**

The Devil's Device - The story of the invention of the torpedo.**

The Devil's Device - The story of the invention of the torpedo.**
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The Devil's Device - The story of the invention of the torpedo.**

by GRAY**, EDWIN:

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ISBN 13
9780854221042
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn to front,inner dw/dj flap but unusually a previous owner's neat,ink name to dw/dj's rear,inner flap and price-clipped to front flap.Book is slightly cocked.Top+fore-edges both aged and slightly grubbed; contents, generally bright and clean.Unblemished,plain black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate plain white endpapers with no hint of off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,253pp,b/w contemporary illustrations and photographs. The story of Robert Whitehead,inventor of the torpedo.Without the torpedo,the submarine would still be a nautical toy of little military value and 25,706,096 tons of merchant shipping might not be rusting on the sea-bed.Without the torpedo Jutland could well have been an overwhelming British victory and the Battle of the Atlantic need never had been fought.Whitehead,a relatively unknown engineer exerted more influence over the tactics of naval warfare and the design of warships than all the world's top Admirals and naval architects put together.And the weapon he created twice brought Britain to the verge of defeat. Gray tells,for the first time, the story of Whitehead's life tracing the the developement of the torpedo from it's birth to today's missile age.A hard working engineer from Bolton-le-Moor Lancashire, benevolent and devoted family man who proudly watched his children marry into the cream of European Society.A self-made millionaire with extravagant and eccentric tastes,by his single-minded determination gave the world's Admirals the 'Devil's Device' - a weapon he fondly believed would make warfare at sea something too terrible to contemplate.Little did he realise he was to become one of the greatest single architects of destruction in the history of mankind.Book fills an important gap in naval history and brings due,if belated,honour to Robert Whitehead.See also rja2102 - another example. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/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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R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Devil's Device - The story of the invention of the torpedo.**
Author
GRAY**, EDWIN:
Illustrator
illus with b/w contemporary illustrations and photographs.
Book Condition
Used - VG.
Jacket Condition
VG.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0854221042
ISBN 13
9780854221042
Publisher
LONDON.SEELEY SERVICE,1975.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1975
Keywords
q52.NAVAL/MILITARY.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0854221042.Robert Whitehead_torpedos.Naval history_torpedo_invention.Jutland.Battle of the Atlantic_WW2.Naval architecture_ship design.Underwater warfare_missiles_self-propelled torpedos_depth charges_mines_
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