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Book Condition: Used Very Good
Seller: Wadard Books PBFA

United Kingdom
About Item: London: Chatto & Windus, 1949 "In the Merchant Navy we were not quite unprepared for action when war came in 1939, and certainly we were not as ill-briefed for hostilities as in 1914." The recollections of Captain Sir David Bone (1874-1959) who began his seafaring on windjammers in Australia in 1890 and joined Anchor Line in 1899 where he ended up as Commodore retiring in 1946. Edition limited to 160 copies and signed by the author. xx, 332pp gilt top edge, foredge uncut. Illustrated in black and white by Muirhead Bone, the authors brother and official war artist to the Admiralty.
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