Command Far Seas by Keith Middlemas (9 results)

Condition: Good. 1961. First Edition. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs throughout. Ex libris plate at front. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces. Book has slight forward lean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good condition hardcover book, no dust jacket. Slight smudging and shelf wear to covers. Very slight sunning to spine. Top edge of text block colored. Very slight foxing and smudging to text block edges and end papers. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never X-library unless specifically described as such.…

HARDBACK BLACK. General wear, contains BW photographic frontispiece, loose spine, racked spine, good silver lettering to spine, coloured blue top edge, light tanning to spine DATE PUBLISHED: 1961 EDITION: 255.

First edition, Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Condition: Good. 1961. First Edition. 255 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations and maps. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Top textblock edge dyed blue. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is clear. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.…

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 255pp, illustrated, maps, edges browning, text clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper, wrapper edges rubbedslightly frayed at corners and spine ends, not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Ex-Libris sticker on end paper,Pages clean and bright,Binding firm,Dust jacket unclipped,Light wear to edges. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

1st edition chipped dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 255pp., frontis., b/w plates, maps, bibliog., index, Account of the German Cruiser Raiders of 1914 and the Naval battles of Coronel & Falkland.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good in a plastic wrapper. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 255, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Index. Signed and dated by the author on the fep. Minor soiling inside front cover. DJ has some discoloration. Robert Keith Middlemas (1935-2013) was an English historian, known for works on British Naval history and modern European political history. He was educated at Stowe School and then joined the Northumberland Fusiliers, before entering Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating with a first class degree in history. Entering the Civil Service, Middlemas worked as a House of Commons clerk for nine years. From 1967 he was a lecturer at the University of Sussex. He became a reader there in 1976, and Professor in 1986. Middlemas published 21 books. This is a the author's first book. It is a vivid and exciting account of the German cruiser raiders of 1914 and the naval battle of Coronel and Falkland. 1914 produced a dramatic threat to British seapower, unchallenged since the days of Nelson. Fast German raiders attacked the far-flung shipping routes, sinking dozens of merchant vessels and causing consternation on the London markets. this reached a climax at Coronel when on Pee destroyed Admiral Cardiac and his squadron and threatened grave loss of prestige throughout the Empire at the very moment with the Dominions were pouring out troops for the hard-rpressed Western Front. Stirred by the disaster, the Admiralty reasserted itself and in a series of bold and decisive moves hunted down the solitary raiders and smashed on Pee at the Falkland Islands. the story switches fro the Admiralty to the Pacific and the stormy waters of Cape Horn, from exotic South Sea islands to the mangrove swamps of East Africa, But this is not only the picture of a dramatic year--it is the story of men on both sides whose vivid personalities lay behind this world threat and its solution; The Germans on Pee, on Muller and the lonely captains doomed to be hunted down by the more powerful enemy; Cardiac and Milne, suffering from uncertainty and conflicting orders, Sturdee, tough and successful'; Tirpitz and on Pohl, divided about strategy, fighting for the support of Kaiser Wilhelm; Battenberg, Fisher and the irrepressible figure of Churchill. This is an assured piece of writing . The author handles the narrative with skill and authority in terms compressible to the non-strategically minded. In the field of recent history the author shows much promise for the future.…