9780393056099 - The blockade busters (11 resultados)

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First American Edition. First American edition. Jacket price clipped, page ridges foxed. 1977 Hard Cover. 224 pp. Contains a detailed account of three important British naval blockade-running attempts from neutral Sweden during WWII.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First. very nice copy; getting Swedish steel to Britain during WWII.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good condition. First American edition, first printing. No internal markings of any kind. Dust jacket has been price-clipped. Light soiling to edges of text block. Previous owner's name on rear inside DJ flap.; 8.10 X 5.60 X 1.10 inches.

blue 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. minor sunfading along the top of covers. edges clean. fox spots on the endpapers, erasure spot on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of markings. price clipped dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first american edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line). 224p. approximately 31 b&w photo illustrations. sources. index. biography. world history. world war ii. naval history. third reich. nazi germany. ~ One of the great sea stories of World War II has at last been declassified and told. It is the tale of George Binney, a thirty~nine~year~old civilian working in neutral Sweden when Norway was overrun in 1940, who ran vital cargoes of Swedish war materiel to Britain through the German blockade in the Skagerrak, where the Luftwaffe was in complete control of the air and the Royal Navy dared not attempt to provide protection. Loading a number of stranded Norwegian ships with stockpiled goods that would otherwise have gone to Germany, and manning them with motley crews personally recruited from interned British seamen, Norwegian patriots, and Swedish engineers, Binney determined to break out into the North Sea under cover of darkness and bad weather. Despite Admiralty forecasts that such an operation was doomed, and in the face of political objections, five ships carrying a year's supply of Swedish materials for the expanding British war industries were successfully sailed to Britain in January 1941. This was only the beginning. An attempt to sail ten more ships in April 1942, bitterly opposed by the Germans, and delayed for many months by a legal wrangle in the Swedish courts, ended in disaster when six of them were sunk or scuttled and only two got through. But then came the saga of the Little Ships, the motor gunboats that operated out of the Humber to and from the Swedish coast in the winter of 1943~44, defying all that rough weather and the strengthened German defenses could throw at them. The moving spirit in all these operations was George Binney, and despite the losses sustained, his success provided Britain with essential materials at a crucial time.

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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 224 p with 8 B&W plates and one map. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Previous owner's name sticker on first free page. DJ is bright and undamaged.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 2nd Edition. Book VG blue cloth dark blue tight spine strip, as new hinges. DJ price clipped in clear plastic cover. 224 PP. B+W photos throughout. Bright unmarked copy, not ex-library. Excellent declassified actual sea stories of war material into Britain from Sweden in January 1941!

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Slightly Frayed DJ. First Edition. 224pp Illus. Index. Swede George Binney, with crews of Swedish engineers and Norwegian patriots, ran a blockade of Swedish material out into the North Sea and on to England. (Loc 900/1).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover price clipped. Stated first American edition. with a full number line starting with 1.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 224pp w/ 1 table, 1 facsimile of document and 2 maps, plus 12 pages with 32 bw photos. Story of two convoys bringing material from Sweden to England: one successful in January 1941, the second in 1942 lost 6 ships of the 8 that set sail. Story of the Motor Gun Boats under the Red Duster which were breaking the German blockade during the winter 1942/1943. Price clipped. Clean.