H.M.S. Warspite. The Story of a Famous Battleship

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Octavo Size [approx 15x22cm]. Very Good condition in Good+ Dustjacket. DJ has some light edgewear and a split to spine fold [now repaired on the underside] - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Still a nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Uncommon in hardcover. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 319 pages. HMS Warspite was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1913 and in 1915 was assigned to the Grand Fleet and participated in the Battle of Jutland. The rest of her service during the war generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea. During the Second World War, she was involved in the Norwegian Campaign in early 1940 and was transferred to the Mediterranean later that year where the ship participated in fleet actions against the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) while also escorting convoys and bombarding Italian troops ashore. She was damaged by German aircraft during the Battle of Crete in mid-1941 and after repairs Warspite returned home in mid-1943 to conduct naval gunfire support as part of Force H during the Italian campaign. She was again badly damaged by German radio-controlled glider bombs during the landings at Salerno and spent most of the next year under repair. The ship bombarded German positions during the Normandy landings and on Walcheren Island in 1944, despite not being fully repaired. These actions earned her the most battle honours ever awarded to an individual ship in the Royal Navy. For this and other reasons, Warspite gained the nickname the "Grand Old Lady" after a comment made by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham in 1943 while she was his flagship.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

H.M.S. Warspite. The Story of a Famous Battleship

Verlag

Collins, London

Erscheinungsjahr

1957

Einband

Hardback

Auflage

1st Edition.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

Schutzumschlag

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• Military-Naval