Expensive Halo

Literature & Fiction

Josephine Tey

Elizabeth Mackintosh

Literary

Peter Davies

<p>Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Contents clean &amp; firm. Dk. red boards are stained, edges rubbed. Rather scruffy d/w.</p>

Gilles de Rais: The authentic Bluebeard

Benedetti, Jean

A history of lighthouses

Patrick Beaver

A history of tunnels;

Hazard Unlimited: Story of Lloyd's of London

Business & Money

Antony Barrington Brown

Insurance

Italian Assets

Richard Butler

This memoir is Peter Dickens’ account of his experiences as the young commander of the 21st MTB Flotilla during 1942-43, mainly in the North Sea and the Channel. In all the annals of the war at sea, comparatively little has been written about the role of the torpedo boat, and yet these small and vulnerable boats, traveling at high speed amid storms and gunfire, and usually under the cover of darkness, managed to closely engage enemy convoys and escorts in high-speed attacks and wreak havoc among the German supply lines. Like the sailors who fought against the U-boats in the battle of the Atlantic, Dickens and his comrades were experiencing a new kind of warfare and had to hit upon the techniques and tactics as they went along; their kind of action called for great courage, spilt-second timing and complete understanding between captain and crew.  Night Action is a lively and thrilling account, but also one which is frank and carefully considered; there is humor but the horror of war is never far away and the author conveys to the reader a sharp sense of the reality of those operations in a way that no history book can do.  Captain Peter Dickens DSO, MBE DSC was the son of Admiral Sir Gerald Dickens and the great-grandson of Charles Dickens. Service in the Norwegian campaign, at Dunkirk and on escort duties on the East Coast preceded his spell as Senior Officer of 21st MTB Flotilla. He was for many years the President of the Coastal Forces Veterans Association.

Night action: MTB flotilla at war

Peter Dickens

White Banners

lloyd-c-douglas

Contemporary

Winter Quarters

DUGGAN, ALFRED

Genre Fiction

Three's Company

Alfred Duggan

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