Max Horton and Western Approaches. A Biography of Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton
( Admiral Sir Max Kennedy HORTON ) CHALMERS, Rear-Admiral William Scott
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Hodder & Stoughton, [1954]
Stock code: 51450
Price: £70.00
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, and maps in the text; blue gilt, gilt device on upper board, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter faintly chafed at extremities.
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. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.266; Law, 0199; NMM II/1 685.