Very Special Intelligence
BEESLY, Patrick
With a Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Hamish Hamilton, [1977]
Stock code: 18528
Price: £28.00
8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates and front and rear endpaper maps, tiny signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Beesly served in OIC from 1940; his account is the first to describe in detail its fight against Germany, excluding the Mediterranean theatre. A useful complement to Maclachlan but with the advantage that ULTRA was beginning to declassify and there is here much new material. Specific episodes include the sinkings of the Bismarck and the Scharnhorst, the Channel Dash and Arctic convoy PQ 17. A key text in the unveiling of ULTRA by a central player in its dissemination. The original edition is elusive in this condition. Enser p.127; 154; Law 0816.