The Silent Service - by TORPEDOMAN T. M. Jones & Ion L. Idriess. [First Edition]

The Silent Service. Action Stories of the Anzac Navy. by TORPEDOMAN T. M. Jones & Ion L. Idriess. Publisher: Angus & Robertson 1944. first edition, first printing.

SCARCE IN JACKET

Very good hardback with jacket. Blue cloth boards a little bumped on corners and spine. Minor fading to spine. Name to ffep and half-title page. Bookseller's stamp to verso of ffep. Tiny crease to some page corners. Light tanning. 338 pages. Jacket is overall good. Some fading, rubbing, chipping and minor marks with small loss to bottom of spine.

The part played by the navies of Australia and New Zealand in the Second World War is here commemorated in a series of brilliant sketches that are worthy of the fine ships and the brave men they portray. The authors have collected their data from the personal accounts of men who were in the ships concerned