U-BOATS AT WAR
by Busch, Harald
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Korumburra, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Putnam, 1955. 286pp., b/white halftone plate frontispiece, plus unpaginated, action or candidly illustrated, b/white halftone plate section. Book clean. Spine firm, but mildly cocked. Patinated gilt title on lightly bumped backstrip. A former owner's stamp on ffep., else leaves randomly specked on textblock edges. Flecked black cloth boards. No dustjacket. First published in Germany as 'So War Der U-Boat Krieg', this English translation is by L.P.R.Wilson. Creating mayhem, sinking millions of tons of shipping, with the loss of thousands of lives before the tide of war began to turn, this is the U-Boat story told from the German perspective. Contents include: Prelims., 19 chapters over four 'parts', Statistics, Refs. Book weight approx. 500g. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Thus (British). Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Diversity Books, IOBA
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005956
- Title
- U-BOATS AT WAR
- Author
- Busch, Harald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- 1st Thus (British)
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- NOISBN, WORLD WAR TWO, 1939-1945, GERMANY, NAVAL HISTORY, U-BOATS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical & Maritime; Military History;
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Diversity Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
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Korumburra, Victoria
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- FFEP
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- Gilt
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cocked
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- Edges
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