Brookes, Ewart (additional chapter by Douglas Reeman), — DESTROYER.
Arrow, London, 1973, 1st in imprint, revised edn., paperback, 255pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., coloured "wrap-around pictorial wrappers by Chris Mayger, history of the development and use of the torpedo-boat, torpedo-boat destroyer and the combination, the destroyer, from the early days to 1973, but mainly the destroyer actions of WW1 and WW2, including the WW1 battles of Heligoland, Dogger and Jutland, actions in the Dover Straits and Western Approaches, WW2 Glow-worm versus Hipper, Narvik, Glorious, Dunkirk (operation Dynamo), Crete, Bismarck, the Battle of the Atlantic, etc., etc., contains an extra chapter written for this paperback edition by Douglas Reeman, slight slant to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., old impressed price upper wrapper, edges tanned, very good,
