Served Royal Navy Officer by Brian Lavery (49 results)

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. During World War II, Britain's Royal Navy has to expand more than sevenfold, in the faces of the threat of invasion, enemy bombing and the need to carry out campaigns all around the world. To find officers for this force it had to move well outside its normal supply of boys trained from the age of 13. It started by recruiting yachtsmen and giving them a smattering of naval discipline before sending them to sea. Then it sent possible officers into action as ordinary seamen, to live a hard and dangerous life in destroyers. Selected men were then given their officer training in three months in an improved seaside base at Brighton.They sailed as officers in all kinds of ships, but especially in the new landing craft which would invade North Africa, Italy and Normandy. Those appointed to escort vessels in the Battle of the Atlantic came under the fearsome gaze of Commodore Stephenson, the 'Terror of Tobermory' before being sent out on convoy escort.This book looks at the social background of naval recruits, the training methods, the personal experiences of those involved (including the actor Alec Guinness) and what they had to learn to become an officer of the watch on the bridge of a warship, or even the captain of a landing craft or frigate. It has much to say on seamanship, naval technology, leadership and organisation which is still relevant today.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Ed. Good+ condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean main pages with a few minor marks to page ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clean, sturdy, unmarked copy. Dj has light edge wear and slight creasing along top edge. A handsome copy - SR.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with silver titling to the spine) Physically 9½" x 6ĵ" (1.2 kg); 384pp; Index; Bibliography; Contains: Black & white photographs; Diagrams; Maps; Cutaways; Photographic end papers & blanks; Plans; ISBN: 1844860701 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #181242|| Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Edges of the text block lightly tanned.

1st US Ed. 384 PP with b/w illustrations and maps in text, Index, Bibliography & Notes, plus 32 pages with 58 b/w photos/plates. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16.

Imperial 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.

8vo. First Edition, with plates, illustrations and diagrams in the text, and pictorial front and rear endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Excellent companion to the author's acclaimed lower-deck trilogy.

Hard cover dust wrapper, 384pp, b&w plates. Light wear to dw and boards; a very good copy. One of Britain's leading naval historians looks at the social background of British wartime naval recruits, the training methods, the personal experiences of those involved and what they had to learn to become an officer of the watch on the bridge of a warship or even the captain of a landing craft or frigate in the Second World War. Draws widely from personal experiences of those involved.

1st edition dust jacket As New octavo 384pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, bibliog., index, The Royal Navy Officer Experience in WW2. The compelling untold story of how a new breed of British naval officers who trained for, fought and won the Second World War at sea.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is the compelling untold story of how a new breed of British naval officers trained for, fought and help win the Second World War at sea.Superbly illustrated ,it is a first-rate read for anyone with an interest in, or connection to , the wartime Royal Navy. There are small dents to the side of the spine on the D/W and there is also some rippling to the edges of the D/W.

2nd printing dust jacket New Book octavo 384pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, bibliog., index, The Royal Navy Officer Experience in WW2. The compelling untold story of how a new breed of British naval officers who trained for, fought and won the Second World War at sea.