Submarines Attacking : Adventures of Italian Naval Forces

Published by William Kimber (1956), London, 1956

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Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New ZealandRenaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB

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Previous owner's name and address label on front endpaper. Creasing to dust-jacket. Some chips and tears to margins of dust-jacket. Some blue dye run on reverse side of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 204 pages + frontispiece + plates. Dark grey cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 137mm. Military history, World War Two. "Admiral Cocchia's narrative starts early in the war when he was chief of the Italian submarine base at Bordeaux, and from this position he describes encounters with British merchant men, the Italian methods of slipping through the Straits of Gibraltar, the sinking of the cruiser Calypso, and the transformation of Italian submarines into unarmed 'merchantmen' to take supplies to Japan. The next phase deals with the Italian surface craft landings on Crete and is followed by the defence of Tobruk, which culminated in the sinking of the cruiser Coventry and of the destroyers Sikh and Zulu." - from dust-jacket blurb.…

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Title
Submarines Attacking : Adventures of Italian Naval Forces
Author
Cocchia, Aldo (Admiral)
Publisher
William Kimber (1956), London
Publication year
1956
Condition
Very Good-
Dust jacket
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First Edition.
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