War in the Southern Oceans 1939-45 by Turner, L.F.C., H.R. Gordon-Cumming, J.E. Betzler. WITH EXTRAS

With extra tipped in photograph and letters!

Publisher: Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1961

Dust jacket is a pictorial stunner and is in very good condition. Not price clipped but with a little edgewear. The book itself is in very good condition in thick blue cloth boards with gilt a bit faded on spine.  There is an interesting  small photograph of two serving British Navy seamen taped to the front free endpaper along with their names ( Peter Brown and "Lord" Miller ) and with 3 references to pages in the text doubtless reflecting these two individuals' personal involvement in the war, including the fact that the ship "British Loyalty" was the victim of enemy torpedoes twice in very different parts of the Southern Oceans, once at St. Helena, and again in Addu Atoll.   These passages have been underlined by the previous owner of the book, one W.F Bolton, who according to a letter of his, loosely inserted, was involved in an attack on a German freighter in Diego Suarez during the war.  This letter is addressed to Bolton and deals in part with the fate of  the "British Loyalty'. An extensive number of maps, charts and photographs, many of them fold-out. All are present and in very good condition, a couple with small closed tears and no loss. Most are pristine as is the rest of the text and illustrations. Book is complete with all the fold out maps in text and four at the end.