Buy this book on-line KENT**, ALEXANDER: : THE INSHORE SQUADRON.**LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1978. ISBN 0091345804.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork,by Chris Mayger, illustrated panels with black printed ink letters to front panel and b/w lettering to spine/backstrip which is inevitably but lightly sunned/faded; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Top edges lightly dust-soiled with some sporadic foxing/spotting,fore-edges brighter and cleaner with a couple of small stains/spots at foot of same; contents bright,tight and clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears an unread copy - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and pale blue+black Scandavia/Baltic Sea map-illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,10-256pp [paginated] includes 17 chapters and an epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title page with author's other published works to its reverse - all listed titles with either a dash but most with a small ink tick alongside it,title page,a dedication,and contents list/table with a verse extract to its reverse too. See my book ID rja703717 for an uncorrected proof copy of this title.
Acclaimed as 'one of our foremost writers of naval fiction' (Sunday Times),Alexander Kent has gone from strength to strength since his first Richard Bolitho novel appeared ten years ago (then 1978).Fine storytelling,careful attention to historical background and sweeping scenes of naval action account for the world-wide success of his books.'The Inshore Squadron' is the 12th Richard Bolitho story and chronologically it follows the events covered by 'Signal-Close Action!'.
In September 1800 Richard Bolitho,a freshly appointed rear-admiral,assumes command of his own squadron - but,as the cruel demands of war spread from Europe to the Baltic,he soon realizes that his experience,gained in the line of battle, has ill-prepared him for the intricate manoeuvering of power politics.
Under his flag the Inshore Squadron has to ride out the bitter hardship of blockade duty and the swift,deadly encounters with the enemy.An old hatred steps from the past to pose a personal threat to him,but at the gates of Copenhagen,where his flag flies amidst the fury of battle,Bolitho must put all private hopes and fears behind him.
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