Agar Capt Augustus (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. 1983. 264 pgs. Illustrated. Reprint. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Personal account of a young CMB naval officer and how his flotilla of small torpedo boats ran agents to and from the very heart of Leningrad past the formidable fortress and naval base of Kronstadt. Commodore Augustus Willington Shelton Agar VC, DSO, RN (4 January 1890 30 December 1968) was a Royal Navy officer in both the First and the Second World Wars. He was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for sinking a Soviet cruiser during the Russian Civil War. EB; 255 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 304pp; frontispiece; illustrated, usual library marks; black spine, white title; The Role of the Royal Navy between the World Wars. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

1st edition worn dust jacket Near Fine octavo 304pp., frontis., b/w pls., maps, index, The Role of the Royal Navy between the Wars in enforcing British diplomacy.