Best Stories Of The Navy by Thomas Woodrooffe Hardcover Book

Title: Best Stories Of The Navy by Thomas Woodrooffe Hardcover Book.
Edited By: Thomas Woodrooffe.
Type: Naval Non-Fiction.
Edition: Reprint 1956.
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited.
Year First Published: 1941.
Format: Hardcover Book, No dustjacket.
Printed By: Punell & Sons Ltd.
Page Count: 318 pages.
Width: 13.5cm
Height: 20.5cm
Thickness: 2.4cm
Info: A collection of 24 short stories, pertaining to escapades on board ships within the Navy.
Some of the stories previosly appeared in the Navy Dittybox magazine during the First World War, stories written by sailors for sailors.
Thomas Borries Ralph Woodrooffe was a British naval officer, broadcaster and writer. He was born in Adelaide, Cape Province in 1899. He joined the Royal Navy in 1917 and served on HMS Resolution during the last year of World War I. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander and left the Navy in 1933.
Woodrooffe rejoined the Admiralty in September 1939. In 1940, he served briefly as Commanding Officer of the light cruiser HMS Coventry. He spent the rest of World War II in the Press Division of the Admiralty.
Condition: Fair, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages. Cover boards faded, foxing and tanning front and end pages. Previous owners inscription front page. Internal pages are good.
Price: R 55.00 Inc Vat.