Buy this book on-line Le BAILLY,Vice-Admiral Sir Louis: : The Man Around the Engine:LIFE BELOW THE WATERLINEUK.EMSWORTH,HANTS.KENNETH MASON,1990. ISBN 0859373541.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE++/FINE.No
owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.
Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial,wrap-around artwork illustrated dw/dj,with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or
tears present.Some minimal,inevitable light scoring/indentations to both wraps - else fine.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,
contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate,
plain white eps.Slim 8vo,5-186pp [paginated] includes contents+illus lists/
tables,author preface,15 chapters,23 contemporary,b/w photographs throughout the text and the book,2 full-page b/w maps,
facsimile letter,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,
errata label stuck to recto of title-page and 6pp blanks at rear.Correction to map (pp106),corrected typography strip pasted over last line (pp168) and last line (pp169) corrected (deleted) with black ink lines through it.A very scarce,and exceptional copy.
A naval autobiography covering a long and distinguished career from 1929 to 1975.
From training days in Dartmouth; service on the battleship HMS Hood and the cruiser HMS Naiad,until she was torpedoed in the Mediterranean; life aboard HMS Duke of York
and service in the Pacific; teaching at the
newly founded Royal Naval Engineering College at Manadon in Plymouth,and finally as a naval Attaché and Commander,British Navy Staff in Washington D.C. Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly (1915-2010) was a naval
officer and Director of General Intelligence (1972 to 1975),responsible at the height of the Cold War for the collection of information on the enemy,
primarily the Soviet Union and its allies.
Le Bailly trained in the battleship HMS Hood in 1932,he wanted to pursue a career as a navigator,but was prevented from doing
so,by his defective eyesight.
Reluctantly,he became an engineer and studied at the Royal Naval Engineering College in Keyham,and returned to HMS Hood as a junior engineer officer,serving from 1937 to 1940.From 1942 to 1944 Le Bailly taught at Keyham in Plymouth before joining
the battleship 'Duke of York',from which he
observed the Japanese surrender on board the 'USS Missouri'.
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