Served Royal Navy Officer by Brian Lavery, First Edition (13 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean, unmarked copy with light wear to corners, spine. TM/WWII.

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. 1st Edition. All of our books without an ISBN number (normally pre-1970 in date) are described individually in detail. Books with an ISBN number (this one included) are all offered for sale in good condition or better: some may be in very good, near fine, or fine condition. If the condition is critical to your decision to purchase, then please contact us and we will let you know our view of its condition. If the book is very heavy, we will may need to contact you before completion of purchase to advise you of extra postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. great copy.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition stated, with correct number line sequence, no writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square. Dust jacket is not priced. This collectible, "AS NEW" condition first edition/first printing copy is protected with a polyester archival dust jacket cover. Beautiful collectible copy. GIFT QUALITY.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Firmly bound and carefully read. Both book & jacket are in VG clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss.

Hardback. Condition: Mint. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. This copy is in mint, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dustwrapper is in fine condition International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. 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. Ref LLL 2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 384 pages. Includes Illustrated endpapers. Introduction, Conclusion, Glossary, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Also includes maps, photographs of ships, diagrams of ships, British navy line officers' Shoulder Boards and Sleeve Insignia. Topics covered include The Yachtsmen go to War, A Novelist at Sea, Joining the Navy, Becoming a Sailor, The CW Experience, King Alfred, Fighting the Submarine, Amphibious Warfare, First Command, Western Isles, Convoy, and Landings. 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. Brian Lavery (born 18 July 1945), is a British naval historian, author, and Curator Emeritus at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, England. Traditional Boats & Tall Ships refers to him as "one of the world's leading naval historians."[2] He has since published over 30 books, covering marine architecture, ship construction (including several in Conway's Anatomy of the Ship series), and naval warfare from its infancy to present day. He is a leading expert in the career of Nelson and the broader Royal Navy. Patrick O'Brian found Nelson's Navy (1989) to be "the most nearly regal that I have come across in many years of reading on the subject." The Times labelled the same book a "masterpiece on life in the Senior Service under England's favourite seafaring son." Brian Lavery's extensively researched study takes an in-depth look at the officers of the Royal Navy and the various routes they took from initial recruitment and training to their role in the fighting. During World War Two the Royal Navy had to expand more than sevenfold to counter numerous threats across the globe. This book looks at the social background of British wartime naval recruits, 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. The first half of the book looks at the selection and training of all types of officers, from experienced yachtsmen and tradesmen to ordinary seamen, and includes a chapter on the training establishment where recruits were prepared for war. The book then follows various recruits into service on board ships. Quotes from well-known actors, writers, and entertainers-John Mills, Alec Guinness, and Evelyn Waugh, among others-show how important their wartime service was to their subsequent careers. Presumed First U. S. Edition, first printing.

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.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. In Which They Served. The Royal Navy Officer Expwerience in the Second World War. In unread condition. The compelling untold story of how a new breed of British naval officers trained for, fought and won the Second World War at sea. A first-rate read for anyone with an interest in, or connection to, the wartime Royal Navy. Superbly illustrated and presenting evocative first-hand accounts and wry anecdotes from serving household names including Ludovic Kennedy, Nicholas Monsarrat, Geoprge Melly, Evelyn Waught and Alec Guiness. Illustrated. 384 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

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.