Buy this book on-line TUTE,WARREN: : THE ROCKLONDON.CASSELL,1957.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG++.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Pictorial colour wrap-around dw/dj with miniscule shelf-wear (if any) to edges, no fading to
spine/backstrip, no creases, nicks, and no tears.However, internally of dw/dj,
there is some foxing and darkening of spine/backstrip, but not discernible from the exterior.Top edge lightly dust-soiled and minimally, lightly foxed/spotted;with
bottom+fore-edges also lightly aged and lightly foxed/spotted.Contents bright, tight and clean,again with minimal foxing
normally associated with a book of this age and period.A really superb copy and one of the best handled.Bright, clean red paper-covered bds with stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip.8vo,v-vii+3-396pp includes author's preface and a b/w map.
The Rock of Gibraltar has been a British Fortress and colony for more than two hundred and fifty years.As our last foothold on the Continent of Europe,as a bastion of British sea-power,as the custodian of the entrance to the Mediterranean,it has always been a vital factor in British strategy.In WW2 the fate
of the Rock lay dangerously in the balance.Novel of the story of Gibraltar in its most fateful years.From the first days of the war,the Rock became a vital pivot of the Mediterranean theatre.From the shelter of its harbour Force H,headed
by the great batle-cruiser Hood and the carrier Ark Royal,sailed out to drive the
Italian navy from its own waters,to immobilise the French Fleet after the fall
of France,to join the avenging hunt for the Bismarck,and,in the most suicidal convoy that ever sailed,to break the siege of Malta.From early in 1940 the Rock was under continuous threat by land should the Germans decide to swing through
Spain,and by air from German bases in North Africa.She was as dangerously threatened by sabotage from within,for ten thousand Spanish workers crossed from Spain every morning to work in the Dockyards and crossed back again every night.But Gibraltar survived to garner and
send forth the mightiest armada the world has known.From the Rock was launched Operation Torch - the invasion of North Africa.Author's 7th book.
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