captain stephen roskill (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Wordsworth Edition. Paperback. The Navy at War. 1939-1945. The author writes with the same simplicity and ease whether he is describing the movement of ships in a single action or the relation of a whole campaign to the strategy of total war. The narrative is thrilling and the analyses clear: Roskill describes the major sea battles such as the River Plate and Matapan as well as the characteristic convoy actions of the Battle of the Atlantic, Murmansk and Malta. He covers the contribution made by British technology in the shape of the Asdic and Radar but the story is, above all, about the courage and skill of the officers and men who made the victory possible. Illustrated. 480 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. FOLIO SOCIETY edition with slipcase - highly collectable.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 262pp. 21.5cm. Frontispiece portrait. 15 black and white illustrations. End paper maps. Hard cover in dark blue cloth with decoration. Creasing to corners of a few pages. A good clean copy. (Barrow's book, first published in 1831, here with a lengthy Introduction by Captain Roskill).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Fabulous hardback book, with gilt title impression, set in brown coloured blocked box, positioned on the top part of the spine. Comes with dark green coloured box, slipcase. The book is in excellent condition, it looks like its hardly been used or read. Normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. First published by The Folio Society in 1976, reprinted with a new binding in 1998, this specific edition is the fifth printing 2001. Endpapers drawn by Reginald Piggott. 261 pages all intact, all pages, text, maps and illustrations are in excellent, clean readable order. Printed at St Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds. Bound by Cambridge University Press. Binding Illustration: Mutineers on HMS Bounty casting Captain Bligh adrift. Oil painting by Robert Dodd, 1790 (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.) Another stunning book from The Folio Society Folio.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. The Folio Society, London 1998 pictorial hardback with slipcase 2nd impression 261 pages with b/w illustrations and maps to eps, has 3 very slight marks to 2 pages Otherwise covers and inside in EXCELLENT CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER AS NEW Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

1p., 4to. He is honoured to be asked to talk to the Napier Society (a military history society at Sandhurst), but is 'right in the middle of the Cambridge term', as a Fellow of Churchill College, and so must 'propose a subject which I have already talked about.' He suggests two topics: 'Trade Defence in World War II' and 'Some Reasons for Official History', in the last of which he tries 'to answer criticisms of that form of history and describe the sources I had used and the way I had worked when writing The War at Sea 1939-45'. He ends by warning Brett-James that his deafness makes him 'pretty hopeless in discussion unless I can have somebody to repeat questions to me. With most of my audiences this has worked satisfactorily, so I hope you can make arrangements to overcome my disabilitiy.' Brett-James's official title was 'Head of Department, War Studies & International Affairs, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst'.