Passage to Destiny. The Sinking of the SS KHEDIVE ISMAIL in the Sea War against Japan
CRABB, Brian James
NEAR FINE COPY WITH AUTHOR'S T.L.s.
Published: Paul Watkins Stamford, 1997
Stock code: 51712
Price: £60.00
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and photographs and illustrations in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; laminated boards, a near fine copy.
Loosely inserted is a small quantity of typewritten correspondence between a previous owner and the author concerning research for the book. The first account of the loss of the SS KHEDIVE ISMAIL - the third worst Allied shipping disaster of WWII. Over 1200 people lost their lives when the troopship was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-27 in the Indian Ocean. SCARCE.