Town Class Destroyers. A Critical Assessment
HENSHAW, John
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Crowood Press [Marlborough], [2018]
Stock code: 50464
Price: £22.00
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 fine coloured plates and 16 tinted illustrations in the text; original patterned boards, a near fine copy.
Detailed account of the fifty [already obsolete] destroyers supplied to the Royal Navy in exchange for overseas base leases. Collected from three distinct US classes, the refitted RN versions were known collectively as the 'Town'-class. Arguably the most famous was CAMPBELTOWN, expended during CHARIOT, the raid on St. Nazaire.