A Sailor’s Odyssey
CUNNINGHAM, Admiral of the Fleet Viscount [A.B.]
IN FULL THEMED MOROCCO
Published: Hutchinson, [1951]
Stock code: 41394
Price: £444.00
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 45 plates on 30, 15 maps (5 double-page) in the text and folding coloured plan; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with RN Crown, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
A full and detailed autobiography of 'ABC', indisputably the finest British admiral of WWII and considered by many the greatest since Nelson. His long and outstanding career notwithstanding, he will be remembered always as 'Master of the Mediterranean' in the fraught days of mid-WWII. An elegant copy. Albion, p.269; Enser, p.264; Law, 0678; NMM II/1 454.