Churchill’s Pirates
SUTHERLAND, John, Diane, CANWELL.
The Royal Naval Patrol Service in WWII.
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Pen & Sword [Barnsley], [2010]
Stock code: 40548
Price: £44.00
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
The RNPS was unique and boasted its own rules and regs. Manned mainly by ex-fishermen and armed with obsolete weaponry, it suffered heavily in the first years of the war. This is a useful complement to Featherbe, but RNPS is still a grossly under-written aspect of the RN in WWII