Max Horton and Western Approaches
( Admiral Sir Max Kennedy HORTON ) CHALMERS, Rear-Admiral W.S.
A Biography of Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Hodder & Stoughton, [1954]
Stock code: 46081
Price: £40.00
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, and maps in the text; blue gilt, gilt device on upper board, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip.
Dustwrapper artwork by C.E. Turner. The greater part concerns Horton's career in WWII; as C-in-C Western Approaches he was ultimately responsible for decisive victory in the Atlantic. An important and readable account. The first edition is increasingly elusive in this condition. Enser, p.266; Law, 0199; NMM II/1 685.