Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. 28 cm, 331, illus., index. More

Place_Pub: London: Fine Scroll, 1980. 52, wraps, some wear and soiling to covers. More

Place_Pub: London: Fine Scroll, 1982. 51, wraps, some wear and soiling to covers. More

Old Greenwich, CT: WE, Inc., 1967. Hardcover. viii, 227 p. 23 cm. Illustrations. Glossary. More

Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, Inc., 1966. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. Approximately 50 pages. Some illustrations in color. More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. Quarto, 121, wraps, illus., maps, endpaper maps, glossary, pages darkened & some foxing, spine edges worn & lg tears, covers soiled & worn. More

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1941. 214, illus., illus. endpapers, some pg discolor, boards worn/soiled, spine edges frayed, somewhat shaken, stray marks to pgs/endpprs. More

Place_Pub: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Hardcover. 400, illus., endpaper illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, index, some darkening to text, some wear to DJ edges. The author was formerly an intelligence officer in Hitler's Navy. The book contains revelations about the conflict of strategic ideas, both within the German Admiralty and between its head and Hitler; about the failure of the Navy under Raeder and the Luftwaffe under Goering to cooperate; and about the feuds between the Naval staff on shore and the Fleet Commanders at sea. Strange as it may seem, no reliable and yet popular history of the German Navy during the Second World War has appeared since the German war records were returned from London and became available to German historians and journalists. With such records now to hand, this book can report the highlights and decisive phases of the war at sea from the German point of view. Germany's defeat at sea was the one which irretrievably lost her the war. Efforts to suppress or forget our mistakes, though originally understandable, have succeeded only in cloaking personalities in a veil of "taboo'' quite contrary to German naval tradition. Erich Raeder, architect of the fleet that in 1939 had to be sent out to fight a war that it did not expect, once pronounced: "The deeds of the German Navy must be subjected to the full light of day." More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. First U.S. Edition. 399, illus., maps, apps, bibliography, index, fore-edge stained, boards & spine scuffed, worn, & spotted, board corners worn. More

Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1993. Revised Edition. 319, profusely illus. (some in color), bibliography. More

Berlin: VDI-Verlag GMBH, 1929. First? Edition. First? Printing. 99, illus., diagrams, ink notation on separated front flyleaf, front board weak, bookplate removed from inside front board. More

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1977. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. 160 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Includes Introduction, France falls, Britain digs in, Into battle, the Eagle swoops, The fabled few, The miraculous mistake, London reels, Point of balance, Verdict of history, and Bibliography. Edward Bishop was the author of a series of popular historical books on the Royal Air Force. A Fleet Street journalist with an engaging shrewdness wrote The Wooden Wonder (1959), the story of the Mosquito, which had been dismissed as a hopeless anachronism by the air establishment because it had a wooden frame. The book's greatest admirer was Lord Beaverbrook, the newspaper proprietor. On hearing that Bishop was working next on the Battle of Britain he immediately summoned him to his penthouse flat at midnight. "Sit down on that sofa where many great men have sat," said "The Beaver". "Who?" asked his bemused guest. "Lloyd George, Churchill . . . and now Edward Bishop," came the reply. Beaverbrook, who had been Minister of Aircraft Production when the German invasion was threatened, offered Bishop a wide range of contacts; and later he paid the then large sum of £4,000 for the rights to serialize The Battle of Britain. Again and again the British fighters tore into the huge formations of heavily escorted German bombers. Six Hurricanes against seventy Dorniers; twelve Spitfires against one hundred Heinkels. It was summer, 1940, and "The Few," a dwindling, gallant company of Royal Air Force fighter pilots, were all that stood between Britain and defeat. More

London: William Kimber, 1972. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 232 pages. Includes Part One, Part Two, and an Epilogue. Includes 28 black and white illustrations in the text. Include maps and diagrams. Typographical error noted on List of Maps and Diagrams. The Track Chart for Convoy PQ17 page reference should be 8-9 (and not 809). DJ has some wear and soiling. Book has some edge soiling. Captain John Egerton "Jack" (or Jackie) Broome DSC, RN, (23 February 1901 – 19 April 1985) entered the Royal Naval College at Osborne in 1912. From Osborne, he passed in 1915 to the senior College at Dartmouth. He was promoted Sub-Lieutenant and served in the destroyer HMS Clematis in the Red Sea and at Aden. From there he attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and after graduating in 1923, chose to serve in submarines. By this time, his talent as a cartoonist and wag was well established. In 1938, he attended a staff course at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. Broome was judged to be too old in 1939 to command a submarine in wartime. in June 1942, his Escort Group 1 was assigned to protect Convoy PQ 17, sailing from Hvalfjord in Iceland to Murmansk. The Arctic convoys were reckoned to be very hazardous missions, as they faced not only U-Boats but also German aircraft and surface ships, including the powerful battleship Tirpitz. Under attack, Admiral Dudley Pound, the First Sea Lord, order the convoy to scatter. Twenty-one of the convoy's thirty-five ships were sunk following the order. After the Second World War, he became a writer and illustrator. More