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Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1962. First Edition date same on title. Hardcover. very good/very good. NOT an ex library book. 344 pages including the index. Dust jacket has 1/2" tear, no chips. Price is clipped.
THE FLEET THAT JACK BUILT - Nine Men Who Made a Modern Navy by Jameson, William
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Rupert Hart-Davies, , 1962, UK first edition, hard bound ( no dj) 6x9, Good only CONDITION, (cover wear and spine fading, contents sound) , 344 pages, illus, bibliog., index.-------------------------------------------------- IN 1868 the first ironclad battleship was launched. In 1918 the German Fleet surrendered at Scapa Flow. In the intervening fifty years the Royal Navy, which had remained unchanged for more than half a century, was completely revolutionised in ships, guns and fighting technique. Sir William Jameson has chosen to tell this dramatic and complex story in terms of the men responsible for the revolution in the Fleet and the war-leaders who fought with it. Harry Keppel took the mid-nineteenth century navy as he found it and happily fought Victoria's little wars with it. 'Tug' Wilson taught the Navy that her ships were for fighting and not for show. Charlie Beresford, a fine leader in war and peace, ruined himself by his excursions into politics and his disastrous quarrel with Fisher. And Jacky Fisher himself, the reforming genius, built the new navy and got his own way by sheer force of personality and prophetic power of language.------------------------------------------------------ Scott antagonised everyone but made sure that his guns hit the target. Then there were the war-leaders, Jellicoe, Beatty, Tyrwhitt and Keyes, who took the Fleet that Fisher had built, tested its strength and exposed its weaknesses. The book not only provides biographies of nine great admirals, each complete in itself, but at the same time it links them together so skilfully that it is a fascinating piece of naval history as well as a study in naval leadership.
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N.Y.: Harcourt. nice copy . Very Good. Hardcover. First. 1962.
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rupert hart davies 1962 VG/GOOD+. DJ has a generally grubby and tattered appearance - with chipping to all edges , nicks and some rubbing. small flap at base of dj over the spine is only attached to one end. not price-clipped. owner details to reverse of front board. internally, a lovely clean copy. part of a naval historian's reference library - not a "coffee-table" book. richly detailed.
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Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. Book. Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, foxing to the closed edges, a tightly bound copy with an unmarked text. The chipped dust jacket is complete but with old tape strengthening to the verso which is showing in places & thus good only. 344pp.
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Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962,. 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 344pp, illustrated, edges browned, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, blue cloth, spine faded, Good condition / no dustwrapper .
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Rupert Hart-Davis London 1962. navy blue cloth with gilt to spine, 344pp illus, NF with v sl edgewear & v sl bumped spine foot, d/w VG+(in plastic, sl sunned & v sl soiled)
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London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. 1st edition. Very Nice Copy. octavo. dust jacket 344pp., b/w plates, maps, bibliog., index, Harry Keppel, Wilson, Beresford, Fisher, Scott, Jellicoe, Beatty, Tyrwhitt & Keyes
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