Safe by Rotherham (18 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. signed on the title page by the author, this copy has a solid tight binding with clean unmarked pages. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. (1985); Near Fine/Near Fine dj, octavo, 304pp., blue cloth hardcover, b&w ill's, unclipped ($24.95) pictorial dj, binding tight, text unmarked, Signed in full by author on title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book is clean and tight. Dust jacket has very light wear.

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with rubbed dust jacket. 230mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 304pp.

Hardcover in dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Signed and inscribed by author on front endpaper. A clean, tight and unmarked book in like dust jacket. Very neat. Illustrated. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Pp. 303, many photos, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 304pp., photos, maps.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First. involved in the chase of the Bismarck; very nice copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Fascinating Autobiography of Hank Rotherham's Life in the Royal Navy, in the late 1930s to 1940s,as an RNAS Observer. Includes the Wilhelmshaven Raid and the Bismarck.SIGNED by the author "Hank Rotherham" on the Title Page, with no other inscriptions. Blue cloth cover with Gilt Lettering to spine. 304 Pages, 640g, 9 1/2" Tall. Jacket clipped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Copy in blue cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Jacket lightly scuffed. Light crack in front hinge. Free of inscriptions. Clean text with b/w plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Very good condition in very good (sunned and chipped) dust wrapper, octavo, blue boards, illustrated throughout with photographs, 304 pages. [QP]. Signed by Author(s).

[0-920497-07-1] 1985. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 304pp. Maps, photographs. The spine of the dust jacket is faded and there is a previous owner's name, stamp and bookplate on the front endpapers. (Military--Canada, Military--Canada, Naval Aviation, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo pp. 304. book.

Condition: New.

1st Edition. Hb In Dw 304pp Maps and Illustrations. Autobiography of Hank RotherhamÕs life in the Royal Navy as a Fleet Air Arm Flyer. He won a DSO & OBE. Sunned spine O/w A Vg/Vg Copy SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Peter Mossman (illustrator). BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Front Free Endpaper Pulled From Removal of Pocket, Sticker; Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. DESIGNED BY: Harvie Brydon. COVER DESIGN BY: Peter Mossman. CONTENTS: Foreword; Introduction; Cadet and Midshipman; Courses and Cruisers; Destroyers; Airborne; H. M. S. Apollo; Waiting for War; Three Months of War; The Wilhelmshaven Raid; At The Admiralty; Dakar; Douala and Libreville; Hatston; Find the Bismark; To The Eastern Fleet; Madagascar; Katukurunda; Reunion, and a New Ship; H. M. S. Trouncer at Sea; Canada; Epilogue; Acknowledgements. SYNOPSIS: This book is an autobiographical account of Hank Rotherham's life in the Royal Navy. As a young officer he became convinced that the aircraft was the weapon of the future and as a result he volunteered for the Fleet Air Arm's course for Observers--the men who sat in the back seat of naval aircraft to navigate, spot enemy shipping, observe the fall of shot for ship's gunners, and take aerial photographs. In the early days of the war he was an Observer aboard HMS Courageous when she was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland. Later the same year his expertise as an observer was put to use by the RAF in a raid on the German Navy dockyard at Wilhelmshaven. Once again he was lucky to survive as half the bomber force was shot down in this daylight raid. He subsequently served at the Admiralty, where he had an inside view on a variety of naval operations in 1940. He took part in the abortive expedition to Dakar with General de Gaulle, and the more successful capture of Douala and Libreville with General Leclerc. Following these tropical adventures he was stationed in the Orkney Islands where he became the first CO of the infamous RNAS Twatt. It was while he was here that he took part in the crucial reconnaissance flight which determined that the German battleship Bismarck had slipped into the North Atlantic. His next appointment took him to the Eastern Fleet as air advisor to Admiral Somerville. Here he took part in the invasion of Madagascar, and was then given command of RNAS Katukurunda in Ceylon, the Navy's biggest Air Station. He ended the war as Captain of the escort carrier Trouncer, and then accepted a posting to Canada as Director of Naval Aviation. Rotherham provides an interesting look at life as a Naval officer in the late 1930's, and gives us some fascinating insights into some of the well-known and some of the not-so-well-known events of the war. Born in England on the last day of 1906, Hank Rotherham joined the Royal Navy in 1920. He volunteered for the FAA's Observer course because of his conviction that the aircraft was to be the weapon of the future. A bright and dedicated young officer, he was promoted quickly, attaining the rank of Commander in 1939. Later in the war, as CO of the Royal Navy's largest air Station he was promoted to Acting Captain, being the youngest officer in the service to reach that rank. After the war he was posted to Canada as director of Naval Aviation. At the end of this tour of duty, having been passed over for promotion to the substantive rank of Captain, he opted to retire from the RN and settle in Canada, his wife's homeland. He took up a hardware business in Knowlton, Quebec, before moving into real estate. Now retired, he finds himself fully employed in community projects in Knowlton. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.