The Dover Patrol 1915-1917
BACON, Admiral Sir Reginald
REMARKABLY BRIGHT SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: Hutchinson, [1919]
Stock code: 23065
Price: £224.00
2 vols., 8vo., with 2 portrait frontispieces, titles in red and black, 78 plates, 16 illustrations and plans in the text and 2 large folding maps coloured in outline, endpapers and edges lightly browned; original blue cloth, gilt backs, a remarkably bright, clean copy.
The standard history of the legendary naval force, charged with safeguarding the Channel throughout WWI. Written by the commander who led it during most of the critical period of the war, but who was superseded for political reasons before the great operations he had planned (the mine-barrage and the attack on Zeebrugge) could come to fruition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Taffrail ' The Endless Story', pp. 241 et seq. Enser, p.109