The War at Sea 1939-1945
ROSKILL, Captain S.W.
BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: HMSO, 1961-62-60-61
Stock code: 16012
Price: £384.00
3 vols., in 4, roy. 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with 4 frontispieces (showing 8 plates), 288 plates on 142 (1 double-page), 87 folding maps (74 coloured in outline), 30 full-page maps (6 coloured in outline), 17 maps in the text and 111 tables (7 double-page) in the text, neat inscription on front free endpapers; green cloth, gilt backs, a very good, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers very lightly dust-soiled with small damp-mark (wrapper only) on backstrip of second volume.
With personal bookplate on front paste-downs. A previous owner has annotated neatly the backstrips of the wrappers to indicate the years covered by each volume. The official British account published in the UK Government's series History of the Second World War. The set comprises: Volume I: The Defensive, 1954 (fifth impression 1961); Volume II: The Period of Balance, 1957 (third impression 1962); Volume III/1: The Offensive Part 1: 1 June 1943-31 May 1944, 1960 (first impression); Volume III/2: The Offensive Part II: 1 June 1944-14 August 1945, 1961 (first impression). The last two volumes contain their respective errata slips (errors in the first two volumes are corrected in the text of the later printings). Roskill's masterpiece is an absolutely basic source and a model of its kind. Enser, p.383; Law, 0647.