battle java sea de david thomas (19 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.65.

Ilustr. En inglés. Cart.sobrec. 472 páginas.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. A volume in the Great Battles of the Modern World Series. Grey covers with yellow cloth spine with gold lettering which is bright. Covers exhibit light bumping on bottom edges and spine ends. Light soiling to top and front page ends. Light yellowing to text due to age. Text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Hinges are tight. Illustrated with b&w photos. Illustrated dj is in a protective mylar cover with small chips and creasing on spine ends, edges and corners. Light shelf wear and soiling to covers. "This is the first full account of what Winston Churchill called 'the forlorn battle', the attempt by a desperately small fleet of British, Australian, American and Dutch ships to stem the Japanese advance into Southeast Asia in the days immediately following Pearl Harbor." All books are individually described. Never ex-lib unless stated.

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Printing. Second printing. No jacket. Former USAF copy. Jacket flap adhered to and blind stamp on front free endpaper, ink transfer on front paste-down endpaper, surface tear on rear free endpaper. 1969 Hard Cover. 259 pp. The Battle of the Java Sea was a decisive naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Allied navies suffered a disastrous defeat at the hand of the Imperial Japanese Navy on 27 February 1942 and in secondary actions over successive days. The American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) Strike Force commander? Dutch Rear Admiral Karel Doorman?was killed. The aftermath of the battle included several smaller actions around Java, including the smaller but also significant Battle of Sunda Strait. These defeats led to Japanese occupation of the entire Dutch East Indies.

Original Cloth w. Dust Jacket. Condición: Very Good. 260 pp. Owner's stamp on flyleaf, otherwise a very good and clean copy. SHIPPING WORLDWIDE INCLUDED.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Battle of the Java Sea; David A. Thomas; André Deutsch, London, 1968. First edition. From the blurb The Battle of the Java Sea, the Forlorn Battle as Churchill called it. Was one of the most disastrous episodes in the darkest year of the last war 1942. Even as Japanese bombers struck at Pearl Harbour, another campaign was developing as Japanese invasion convoys steamed south towards the Philippines, Malaya and the East Indies. The Allies British, Australian, American and Dutch assembled an ill-assorted fleet in a vain attempt to stem the coming invasion. Virtually within hours of the declaration of war Britain s only two capital ships in the area, Prince of Wales and Repulse, were lost to air attack in the gulf of Siam. Denied air cover, wrestling with the difficulties of an unworkable system of command and communication, outclassed in tactics, speed and firepower, the Allied ships were frittered away in a series of piecemeal actions. The Dutch cruisers de Ruyter and Java went down, as did the Exeter, victor of the River Plate, and the Australian cruiser Perth and the USS Houston. For the Japanese, it was a classic example of the offensive use of sea power for the Allies a humiliating defeat, both in its speed and completeness. Mr. Thomas has produced an hour-by-hour account that is both vivid and accurate. Map endpapers and black & white photographs. This book, 260 pages is in fine condition in a fine dust jacket that is now in a protective mylar wrap.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 260pp., b/w pls., diags., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Recounts the loss of the British Ships, Prince of Wales, the Repulse & Exeter, Dutch cruisers de Ruyter & Java, the Australian Perth and the USS Houston.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 260pp., b/w pls., diags., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Recounts the loss of the British Ships, Prince of Wales, the Repulse & Exeter, Dutch cruisers de Ruyter & Java, the Australian Perth and the USS Houston.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 260 pp, hardbound, 1st, VG+/F-, light offsetting to ffep, also owner's info discreetly inked ffep, else super clean and binding tight, NOT EXLIB, NOT PC, mylar protected.