Waves of Battle
London: Arco Publications Limited, 1959. 280, some wear and soiling to DJ, pencil erasure on front endpaper, endpages somewhat discolored. More
London: Arco Publications Limited, 1959. 280, some wear and soiling to DJ, pencil erasure on front endpaper, endpages somewhat discolored. More
London: Longmans, Green, [1950]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 344, maps (some fold-out), footnotes, index, part of DJ cut off & pasted to front endpaper, usual library markings. More
London: Rich & Cowan Ltd., 1933. Second Printing. 24 cm, 271, illus., boards quite worn, boards weak, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1959. Second Printing. 500, illus., maps, appendices, index, library bookplate, stamps, & barcode, board corners somewhat bumped, boards & spine scuffed. More
Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1959. Second Printing. 500, illus., maps, appendices, index, lib stamps (some crossed out in marker), rough spot ins rear flylf, board & spine edges worn. More
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, [1967]. First Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 192, illus., DJ worn and torn. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5 inches by 8.25 inches. xii, [2], 270, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Diagrams. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Gerald L. Duskin spent twelve years researching the Jervis Bay story in Europe and North America before his death in 2002. Ralph Segman, a longtime journalist, was news editor of Science News and managing editor of Technology Review before his retirement. The authors deliver a stirring account of one of the greatest David-and-Goliath stories in the annals of sea fights: the sacrificial defense of a British convoy by its escort Jervis Bay against Admiral Scheer, one of Germany's most feared warships. The extraordinary engagement received front-page treatment when it occurred in November 1940, but tales like this are often lost in the great kaleidoscope of World War II, where watershed events tend to overshadow smaller encounters. This is a story of such courage and resourcefulness, however, that it deserves to be remembered by today's students of history. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. vi, 155, [3] p. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. vi, 155, [3] p. More
London: Phoebus, 1973. 1st Phoebus Edition. Quarto, 160, profusely illus. (some in color), maps, reading list, some scuffing to boards, some wear to board corners. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1955. pocket paperbk, 223, wraps, illus., appendices, binding cracked at p. 113, text darkened, covers worn and creased, ink name on p. 1 & fr cover stains inside front cover. More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1955. 340, illus., appendices, index, slight discoloration inside boards, boards scuffed and stained, corners of boards bent. More
Berlin: Im Deutschen Verlag, [c1933]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 258, illus., some page discoloration, ink notation & pencil erasure on front endpaper, stamp inside front board. Text is in German. More
Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, c1998. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 268, illus., maps, DJ worn, soiled, small tears, and minor chipping. More
New York: HarperCollins, 1998. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xxviii, 492 p. Illustrations. Notes. Select Bibliography. Glossary Index. More
New York: Dell, 1999. First printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. xxxi, [1], 541, [3] pages . Illustrations. Notes. Select Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Ink marks on second page. Michael V. Gannon (born 1928) is an American military historian, academic and former war correspondent. During World War II, Gannon was a member of the American Field Service, in the 1950s he wrote on European military topics. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Florida in 1962. In 1968, he was a war correspondent in Vietnam. He taught at the University of Florida with a teaching career spanning 38 years. He became Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History. One well known work by Gannon is Operation Drumbeat (1990). Gannon had researched the subject of Black May extensively, traveling to Europe to interview surviving participants. Official documents, on both sides of the Atlantic, were obtained to provide further information. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1990. First Edition. Second? Printing. 25 cm, 490, illus., maps, endpaper maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, minor soiling to DJ, sticker residue on rear DJ. More
New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1918. 20 cm, 386, illus., footnotes, front board weak/reglued, boards somewhat worn and soiled. More
[Lund]: C. W. K. Gleerup, [1965]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 390, wraps, maps, facsims., footnotes, usual library markings, some wear and soiling to covers. Text is in German. More
Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1989. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 115, [3] pages. Illustrations. This is a translation of The Submarine Commander's Handbook ("U.Kdt.Hdb.") Incorporated in the Secret Archives under Heading IV, No. 4, Command 32, Submarine Flotilla, New Edition 1943 (comprising Amendments Nos. 1-11). The Submarine Commander's Handbook, ("U.Kdt.Hdb."), 1943 describes the submarine U-boat tactics of Nazi Germany. Note that this edition is from 1943 during which the Allies had effectively countered these tactics and the battle of the Atlantic turned in the Allies favor. More
New York: George H. Doran Company, [c1921]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 284, illus., map, index, bds worn, soiled, and weak, corners bumped, some page discoloration, spine faded, tear at top of spine. More
New York: Pergamon Press, 1981. Book Club Edition. 22 cm, 182, notes, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat soiled and some edge wear. More
West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2009. Second Edition. Trade paperback. [6], viii, 139, [3] pages. Illustrations. Annexes - US Coast Defenses of World War II. Defense of the Delaware Searchlight Plan. Computing the "Flight Time" of an Artillery Projectile and December 1942: The German Attack on Wilmington. End Notes. References. Photo Credits. Index. Autographed Copy sticker on front cover. Signed by the author on title page. Bill Grayson is formally trained as a USAF Intelligence Officer. He served as Commander and as Operations Officer of Air Force Signals Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and Operational Security units throughout Europe and Vietnam and served three tours at the National Security Agency as a Cryptologic Staff Officer and as the Chief of Transmission Security, overseeing all DoD joint service programs. In support of Homeland Security, Bill supported Coast Guard Port Security studies on all three coasts and contributed to a White House plan for distributing intelligence among federal, state, local, and tribal jurisdictions. More
London: HMSO, [1942]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 243, wraps, illus., maps, covers missing but otherwise complete, some wear, soiling, and creasing to several pages. More
New York: Coward McCann, Inc., 1969. First American Edition [stated], Presumed First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 6 inches by 8.75 inches. xiii, [1], 338 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Sources. Index. Some DJ wear. Vice Admiral Sir Peter William Gretton KCB, DSO**, OBE, DSC (27 August 1912–11 November 1992) was an officer in the Royal Navy. He was active in the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War, and was a successful convoy escort commander. He eventually rose to become Fifth Sea Lord and retired as a vice admiral before entering university life as a bursar and academic. Gretton was appointed as first lieutenant in the modern destroyer HMS Cossack and saw action at the Second Battle of Narvik during the Norwegian Campaign. He was given command of HMS Sabre in 1941 and served in the North Atlantic. Promoted to lieutenant-commander on 1 June 1942, he was given command of HMS Wolverine and returned to the Mediterranean. He took part in Operation Pedestal, the Malta convoy operation in August 1942, and sank the Italian submarine Dagabur by ramming. Promoted to commander on 31 December 1942, he was given command of the destroyer HMS Duncan, as Senior Officer Escort to Escort Group B. Promoted to captain on 30 June 1948, Gretton became Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord and then Chief of Staff to the Senior Naval Officer at the Joint Services Mission in Washington, D.C. before being given command of the Naval task group for Operation Grapple in 1956. Promoted to vice-admiral on 10 March 1961, he went on to be Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff and Fifth Sea Lord in 1962. He published widely on defence matters. More