The Greatest Raid of All
( Operation CHARIOT ) PHILLIPS, C.E.Lucas
With Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
Published: Heinemann, [1958]
Stock code: 49394
Price: £485.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 37 plates on 16, 22 illustrations, maps and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps, small signature and date on half-title; 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 anchor motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
An elegant copy of the first and still the best all-round account of Operation CHARIOT, the Combined Operations raid on St. Nazaire in 1942. Enser, p.392; Law 0475; Mulholland & Jordan L71.