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NEVILLE, Ralph Survey by Starlight : A True Story of Reconnaissance Work in the Mediterranean. 1st UK no dj.
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1949,
NEVILLE, Ralph. Survey by Starlight : A True Story of Reconnaissance Work in the Mediterranean. [dj: subtitle: An account of the exploits of C.O.P.P.5]. L.: Hodder and Stoughton, (June 1949). First UK Edition. Pp. (6),vii-x,(2),13-[207],(1), including frontis. and plates. 8vo, blue cloth. Law 0898, Cassell 1408. "Surely the whole literature of the sea offers nothing more adventurous than the story of the Combined Operations Pilotage Parties who ran their individual race with time and danger on the eve of the great Mediterranean landings. Every excitement in Ralph Neville's spirited account of the exploits of his Unit in Malta and Sicily, Italy and Algeria is authentic." -from the dj. "It tells of the hazardous approach to hostile shores in frail canvas canoes; of fantastic hours of reconnaissance work carried out ashore under the very noses of the enemy sentries; and of the hardly less nerve-racking passage on the darkest nights back to the rendezvous when, owing to the possibility of errors of navigation under exceptionally difficultcircumstances and to the accepted fact that the safety of the submarine mu st on no account be compromised, the chance of being abandoned was never remote." - from the Foreword by Major-General R.E. Laycock, C.B., D.S.O. Heavy foxing to edges, esecially fore-edge, foxing to early and late leaves, owner's name, else vg in rubbed, torn (with loss) dj. 50.00
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50.00 CDN
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