Battle Java Sea by Thomas David, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover first edition, 1968. This book is in very good condition - light spotting to endpapers; light spotting to edges. The dust jacket is in very good+ condition - bookseller's sticker on front flap.

1st Ed. 260 PP with 6 maps, plus 12 pages with 21 b/w photos. Eps: Map of South East Asia. Hard cover, top edge tinted, dj. (price clipped). Near fine. 22.2 x 14.2. First full account of one of the major naval campaigns of the Second World War. Sinking of USS Houston, HMAS Perth, HMS Exeter & Electra.

First edition. Hardback. Book and clipped dust jacket are in Fine condition. Illustrated with black/white photographic plates. 259pp. . Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Battle of the Java Sea; David A. Thomas; André Deutsch, London, 1968. First edition. From the blurb The Battle of the Java Sea, the Forlorn Battle as Churchill called it. Was one of the most disastrous episodes in the darkest year of the last war 1942. Even as Japanese bombers struck at Pearl Harbour, another campaign was developing as Japanese invasion convoys steamed south towards the Philippines, Malaya and the East Indies. The Allies British, Australian, American and Dutch assembled an ill-assorted fleet in a vain attempt to stem the coming invasion. Virtually within hours of the declaration of war Britain s only two capital ships in the area, Prince of Wales and Repulse, were lost to air attack in the gulf of Siam. Denied air cover, wrestling with the difficulties of an unworkable system of command and communication, outclassed in tactics, speed and firepower, the Allied ships were frittered away in a series of piecemeal actions. The Dutch cruisers de Ruyter and Java went down, as did the Exeter, victor of the River Plate, and the Australian cruiser Perth and the USS Houston. For the Japanese, it was a classic example of the offensive use of sea power for the Allies a humiliating defeat, both in its speed and completeness. Mr. Thomas has produced an hour-by-hour account that is both vivid and accurate. Map endpapers and black & white photographs. This book, 260 pages is in fine condition in a fine dust jacket that is now in a protective mylar wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 260. Original publisher's binding in blue, lettered silver at spine. Dust jacket in glossy ivory, lettered black with a depictions of National flags and a quotation from Churchill "The forlorn battle" : the attempt to defend Southeast Asia against the Japanese "This is the first full account of one of the major naval campaigns of the Second World War." Endpaper maps of Southeast Asia. Black and white photographs and further maps illustrate the text. Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket. Decent copy.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 260pp., b/w pls., diags., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Recounts the loss of the British Ships, Prince of Wales, the Repulse & Exeter, Dutch cruisers de Ruyter & Java, the Australian Perth and the USS Houston.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 260pp., b/w pls., diags., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Recounts the loss of the British Ships, Prince of Wales, the Repulse & Exeter, Dutch cruisers de Ruyter & Java, the Australian Perth and the USS Houston.