With 20 Reproductions of Paintings by Douglas Wales (Captain Douglas Wales Smith R.N.).
First edition. Twenty portraits. Light browning, otherwise very good in worn dust-jacket. 320pp. London, Collins, 1943.
Short biographies of leading British sailors of the Second World War. Six of the portraits signed by the subjects; Vice-Admiral Burrough, who led the Vaasgo Raid and commanded the landings at Oran; Admiral Cunningham; Lord Louis Mountbatten; Admiral Somerville of “Force H” vital in the hunting of the Bismarck; and Vice-Admiral Wake-Walker who commanded afloat at Dunkirk and shadowed the Bismarck on board Norfolk for a thousand miles.
