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In All Respects Ready: The Merchant Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic. 1940-1945
by Watt, Frederick B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0134536304
- ISBN 13
- 9780134536309
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About This Item
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada: Prentice Hall of Canada Ltd, 1985. First Canadian Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xviii, 222pp. Two unpaginated sections of historical bw photographs. Med blue endpapers. Prev owner name inked to ffep. Beige cloth, blue cloth quarter-wrap spine with crisp white lettering. Bumping and scuff to tail. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ clean and without wear, showing toning to top and bottom edges of flaps. Octavo.
In All Respect Ready is the story, told by the man who was instrumental in its development, of the Naval Boarding Service in Halifax during World War II and its efforts to help keep the Atlantic convoys afloat, physically and psychologically.
In All Respect Ready is the story, told by the man who was instrumental in its development, of the Naval Boarding Service in Halifax during World War II and its efforts to help keep the Atlantic convoys afloat, physically and psychologically.
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- Post Horizon Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046060
- Title
- In All Respects Ready: The Merchant Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic. 1940-1945
- Author
- Watt, Frederick B
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Canadian Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0134536304
- ISBN 13
- 9780134536309
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall of Canada Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
- Date Published
- 1985
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- World War, 1939-1945 - Transportation. World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives, Canadian. Merchant marine -- Canada -- History -- 20th century. Canada. Naval Boarding Service. Watt, Frederick B., 1901- NOISBN World War II, Naval
- Bookseller catalogs
- War and Military;
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