1942 (1st) Sub-Lieutenant A Personal Record of the War at Sea. Ludovic Kennedy.

Description: Sub-Lieutenant A Personal Record of the War at Sea. Ludovic Kennedy. Published by B. T. Batsford Ltd London.1942. 103 pages. Please see the 24 images in the listing for an idea of content. FREE U.K. p&p. "This book is the record of a very young man's two years of active service in a Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet, and is one of the first of its kind to be written by a naval officer in the present war. It touches briefly on his early life at Eton and Oxford, and on his period of training for the R.N.V.R.: but It the body of it deals with destroyers life in destroyers, with vivid deseriptions, often illustrated by his own photographs, of actions and events in the war at sea, such as the Battle of Norway, the Lofoten Raid. the sinking of the Bismarck, the Spitzbergen Expedition, the Atlantic Charter Meeting, bombing attacks by enemy aircraft, and other incidents of Atlantic and North Sea patrols and convoys. It is simply and sincerely written, and gives, we believe, an acute insight into the make-up and reactions of young naval officer" Sir Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy, FRSL (3 November 1919 – 18 October 2009) was a Scottish journalist, broadcaster, humanist and author. Case of book is sound. Dustjacket is complete but its seen a bit of action, chips, marks, small tears...please see first two images. Not price clipped (7/6d). Bound in blue cloth with titles to spine and boards. Boards and spine show some age related wear/marks (see third image). Rubs to corners of boards and top/tail of spine. Front hinge is sound (second image) as is rear hinge. Royal Naval War Libraries stamp under front flap of dustjacket. Old faint pencil price to front end paper. Name & date to half title page (sixth image) Bright, clean and tightly bound internally. Overall a clean, used copy. Please be aware this is a vintage item, nearly 80+ years old, & it will show signs of age and use throughout. I am happy to answer any queries you may have in relation to the title, will do my best to answer same day. Will include FREE careful postage and packing via Royal Mail. Thank you. I'm the (not so) fortunate nominee chosen to dispose of a large collection of books that have been in our family for many years. We've also moved house recently and I've made up my mind to make (some) inroads into our own collection of books. Some weird and wonderful titles, many very rare, particularly from the family library. I'll be listing them whenever time allows. Please keep dipping into the listings as I'm working my way through a large assortment of different books (and some other small/postable items). Any book dealers/collectors that would be interested in offering on a number of books, in one lot, then I will always do my best to shave the price by as much as possible. This would only apply to books listed as B.I.N. (I'll let the auctions run to give a fair chance to anyone interested). Please just get in touch with a list of what you're interested in and I'll get back to you with a price...same day in most cases. Thank you. I have given what I consider to be a fair and accurate description but if you have any questions at all about anything, please just ask.....before bidding. Please study the large images above to get an idea of the condition of the item........as usual any questions I am very happy to respond. Book(s) will always be carefully packed. I always obtain a proof of posting from the Post Office when your item(s) is/are dispatched.

Price: 12.87 GBP

Location: Edinburgh

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