Book Guild Publishing, Limited. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Book Guild Publishing, Limited ISBN 1846249716 9781846249716 [GB]

ISBN10: 1846249716, ISBN13: 9781846249716, [publisher: The Book Guild] Hardcover Book and d/j in fine condition. 1st. Signed by author
[Pickering, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2014]
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ISBN10: 1846249716, ISBN13: 9781846249716, [publisher: Book Guild Ltd] Hardcover First Edition H/B 251 pages, condition is Very Good.
[Burntisland, FIFE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2014]
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ISBN10: 1846249716, ISBN13: 9781846249716, [publisher: Book Guild Ltd. London] Hardcover First Edition Book Condition: Hard cover. Dust jacket clean no tears. Spine intact. Front and back clean. first fly leaf page has mark from were sticker was previously removed. Book block clean though last seven pages have had corners folded over at some point. Overall a nice copy. Synopsis Reads; In the early day of the First World War, on 1 November 1914 in the seas off Falkland Islands, the Battle of Coronel claimed 1660 lives, the worst British naval disaster for 100 years. Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock, who died that day, had been badly advised and equipped, and sailed to engage with Vice Admiral Graf von Spee Knowing that he and his men were almost certainly doomed. Why he took such a course of action, and who was really to blame for the disaster, from the core of The Scapegoat, Steve Dunn's definitive biography of one of the British navy's forgotten heroes. Kit Cradock's story touches on the personal and the political, given Winston Churchill's role in the events at Coronel, and The Scapegoat reveals the full truth for the fist time. However weighty Mr Churchill's pen, he cannot explain away the awful fact that a mistake was made by the authorities at home and not Admiral Cradock; wrote a survivor of the carnage of the Battle of Coronel, in just one of the many previously unseen documents uncovered by Dunn in his 20 years of in-depth backgro ...

ISBN10: 1846249716, ISBN13: 9781846249716, [publisher: Book Guild Ltd] Hardcover New
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2014]