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Sailor At Sea
by Hickling, Harold (Vice-Admiral)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-128: William Kimber and Co. Ltd.. Very Good. 1965. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by William Kimber and Company, London, UK. 1965. 224 pgs. Endpaper Maps. Illustrated with black and white plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Admiral Hickling began his career in the Royal Navy when he became a cadet at Osborne in 1905. In 1913 he was a sub lieutenant in the cruiser Glasgow on the South American Station. On the 1st November 1914, the Good Hope, wearing the flag of Admiral Cradock, supported by Glasgow and Monmouth, engaged the German East Asiatic Squadron commanded by Admiral Graf von Spee. An hour later, the flagship and Monmouth had gone down with all hands, Glasgow had only narrowly escaped the same fate. The Battle of Coronel was over...At the beginning of the Second World War, after a rather surprising interlude as, in rapid succession, convoy commander, civilian spy, 'degausser' and commodore commanding a synthetic squadron, Hickling took command of the new cruiser Glasgow. He soon saw action in the Mediterranean, in the hunt for the German pocket-battleship Admiral Scheer, and as Naval Officer in charge of the British Mulberry Harbour at Arromanches... EB; 8.5 X 5.7 X 1.0 inches; 224 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65008
- Title
- Sailor At Sea
- Author
- Hickling, Harold (Vice-Admiral)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- William Kimber and Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- E-128
- Date Published
- 1965
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