Eagle’s War
( HMS EAGLE ) ( Operation PEDESTAL ) SMITH, P.C.
The War Diary of an Aircraft Carrier.
NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Crecy Books, [1995]
Stock code: 34532
Price: £30.00
8vo., First Edition, with 46 plates on 24 and a full-page chart in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by E. Tufnell. Moving account of the famous carrier, told through eye-witness accounts and supplemented by a well-chosen selection of rare photographs (mostly private and almost all previously unpublished). Covers her story from commencement of hostilities to her loss with Operation PEDESTAL.