The Phantom of Scapa Flow. [Gunther Prien and U-47’s attack on the ROYAL OAK.]
KORGANOFF, Alexandre
[Translated by W. Strachan and D.M. Strachan. First English Edition.]
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Ian Allan [Shepperton], [1974]
Stock code: 50688
Price: £34.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs in the text and double-page map; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss at tail of backstrip.
First published in Paris in 1969. A detailed review of Prien's attack on Scapa Flow in October 1939. Prien claimed to have sunk a second battlecruiser as well as ROYAL OAK; the author claims that this was probably IRON DUKE. Enser, p.393; Law, 0098.