Buy this book on-line SMITH**, PETER. C: : Destroyer Leader - The Story of H.M.S. FaulknorLONDON.WILLIAM KIMBER,1968. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG.No owner inscrptn/name but a neat,red ink alpha-numeric 'S72' to top edge of ffe,no price-clip to dw/dj.Wrap-around blue/grey/green
seascape artwork (uncredited) illustrated dw/dj with some minimal shelf-wear and creasing to edges.Some chipping with minimal loss,and rubbing to head of spine/
backstrip and top two corners of dw/dj,a miniscule closed nick/tear to foot of same
also.Light,minimal water-stain and bleeding to foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj internally - bds minimally affected.
Top edge coloured with a small water splash; fore-edges slightly dust-soiled but generally clean; contents bright,tight
and near pristine.Bright,blue paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and
near immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,16-191pp [paginated] includes half-title page,ship's crest vignetted title page,contents+ illustrations lists,double-page b/w Mediterranean theatre map recto of which has Norway+Arctic theatre b/w map;
acknowledgements,author introduction,10 chapters,8pp scattered throughout the text+book,of contemporary b/w photographs - 14 in total,6 colour (blue+b/w) plates from detailed drawings by John Doming of HMS Faulknor,1938-45,appendices(6),and an index.This edition is now out-of-print as the publisher ceased trading in the late 1980's.
Destroyers of the Royal Navy took part in
practically every operation by sea,both major and minor,throughout WWII.They were
employed everywhere,on every sort of duty:
as convoy escorts,invasion craft,and as
close defence for the capital ships;
anywhere their speed,manoeuverability, torpedoes or guns could be of value.More than any other class of ship,they typify the best qualities of the Royal Navy.This
is a detailed account of the career of one
destroyer - H.M.S.Faulknor.Except that she
had the additional equipment of a flotilla
leader,she was typical of most of her sister ships.Laid down in 1935,with the outbreak of war she was fully worked up and at the peak of her efficiency.She fought in the confined waters of Norway which became the graveyard of so many fighting destroyers; she served with Admiral Somerville's Force H in the Mediterranean; she sailed as escort with the Russian convoys to Murmansk; she patrolled successfully against submarines and played a part in the Normandy landings; for a time she acted as General Montgomery's personal transport.By the end
of the war,she was battered and weary but
still in commission: she had come out on top.This is the story of one destroyer at war and from it emerges a sharply defined picture of the whole destroyer service.
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