The Towns
HAGUE, Arnold
A History of the Fifty Destroyers transferred from the United States to Great Britain in 1940.
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Published: [World Ship Society Kendal, 1988]
Stock code: 39236
Price: £48.00
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, very numerous photographs in the text and large folding plan at end; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. The first dedicated study of this class, the acquisition of which proved an invaluable boost to a hard-pressed Admiralty at a crucial period. Good selection of photographs of virtually every vessel balances the enormous publicity accrued elsewhere by HMS CAMPBLETOWN following the St. Nazaire raid.