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ISBN10: 0712639756, ISBN13: 9780712639750, [publisher: Random House UK, London, UK] Hardcover 8vo (2 x 16 cm). 209 pp. Blue cloth covers with silver gilt titles to spine. Library markings to front free endpaper, pages 1-128 lower right corner 2 cm torn, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ taped to endpapers. [Jupiter, FL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]
London, UK: Random House UK, Date: 1991. Later printing. Hardcover. Good +/very good. 8vo (2 x 16 cm). 209 pp. Blue cloth covers with silver gilt titles to spine. Library markings to front free endpaper, pages 1-128 lower right corner 2 cm torn, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ taped to endpapers. 1991. Random House UK ISBN 0712639756 9780712639750 [US]
ISBN10: 0712639756, ISBN13: 9780712639750, [publisher: Random House UK, London, UK] Hardcover 8vo (2 x 16 cm). 209 pp. Blue cloth covers with silver gilt titles to spine. Library markings to front free endpaper, pages 1-128 lower right corner 2 cm torn, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ taped to endpapers. [Jupiter, FL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]
ISBN10: 0712639756, ISBN13: 9780712639750, [publisher: Random House UK] Hardcover The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. [Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1991]
ISBN10: 0712639756, ISBN13: 9780712639750, [publisher: Random House UK] Hardcover The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. [Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1991]
Random House UK 1991-05-14 hardcover Very Good Size: 9x6x1; All proceeds benefit local libraries. Book has some signs of page yellowing due to age. Pages are clean and dust jacket is in good shape.
London: Century, Date: 1991. 209 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w illustrations. "At 3pm on the afternoon of 12 February 1942, the French Submarine 'Surcouf', then the largest submarine in service with any navy, sailed from Bermuda bound for Tahiti via the Panama Canal. On board were 129 French officers and men, and three members of a Royal Navy liaison team. From the moment she left Bermuda, 'Surcouf' was never seen again. Not a single scrap of wreckage, body, or anything remotely connected with this giant vessel was ever found. (She) simply disappeared. On the night of 2 July, 1941 'Surcouf', docked in Devenport, was forcibly taken over by the Royal Navy in an operation that resulted in three deaths and many injuries. A motley collection of Breton fishermen were press-ganged into geting 'Surcouf' seaworthy again. Too slow and cumbersome to serve in home waters, (she) was sent off to Canada to escort convoys across the Atlantic, but almost immediately reports circulated that 'Surcouf' had sunk some of the ships in the first convoy she was guarding. When the British liaison officer warned his superiors 'Surcouf' was a menace and should not be kept in service, he was accused of cowardice and replaced by Sub Lieutenant Roger Burney, a young, naive officer who had enjoyed a long homosexual relationship with the singer Peter Pears and the composer Benjamin Britten, and was later to have 'War Requiem' dedicated to ...
ISBN10: 0712639756, ISBN13: 9780712639750, [publisher: Century, London] Hardcover 209 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w illustrations. "At 3pm on the afternoon of 12 February 1942, the French Submarine 'Surcouf', then the largest submarine in service with any navy, sailed from Bermuda bound for Tahiti via the Panama Canal. On board were 129 French officers and men, and three members of a Royal Navy liaison team. From the moment she left Bermuda, 'Surcouf' was never seen again. Not a single scrap of wreckage, body, or anything remotely connected with this giant vessel was ever found. (She) simply disappeared. On the night of 2 July, 1941 'Surcouf', docked in Devenport, was forcibly taken over by the Royal Navy in an operation that resulted in three deaths and many injuries. A motley collection of Breton fishermen were press-ganged into geting 'Surcouf' seaworthy again. Too slow and cumbersome to serve in home waters, (she) was sent off to Canada to escort convoys across the Atlantic, but almost immediately reports circulated that 'Surcouf' had sunk some of the ships in the first convoy she was guarding. When the British liaison officer warned his superiors 'Surcouf' was a menace and should not be kept in service, he was accused of cowardice and replaced by Sub Lieutenant Roger Burney, a young, naive officer who had enjoyed a long homosexual relationship with the singer Peter Pears and the composer Be ...
ISBN10: 0712639756, ISBN13: 9780712639750, [publisher: Random House UK] Hardcover Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed [Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]
ISBN10: 0712639756, ISBN13: 9780712639750, [publisher: Random House UK] Hardcover Very Good condition. Shows only minor signs of wear, and very minimal markings inside (if any). [Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]
ISBN10: 0712639756, ISBN13: 9780712639750, [publisher: Random House UK] Hardcover Very Good Copy. Fast Shipment [Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]
ISBN10: 0712639756, ISBN13: 9780712639750, [publisher: Random House UK] Hardcover New. Fast Shipping and good customer service [Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]
ISBN10: 0712639756, ISBN13: 9780712639750, [publisher: Random House UK] Hardcover New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed [Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]
ISBN10: 0712639756, ISBN13: 9780712639750, [publisher: Random House UK] Hardcover New [Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]
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