Stephen, Martin (Ed. Eric Grove), — SEA BATTLES in close-up: World War 2.

Ian Allan, London, 1996 reprint, 224pp, numerous half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams in text, large format (9.5 x 7" approx.), navy ble cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, based on an original series produced by the publisher on each WW2 sea battle this collected hardbound edition has been updated with new information and comprises illustrated accounts of the battles known as the River Plate, Attack of Taranto, Matapan, sinking of the Hood and Bismarck, Prince of Wales and Repulse, escape of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, Coral Sea, Midway, Barents Sea and the Sinking of the Scharnhorst, edges a little tanned, nicks to upper edge page 17/18 from bookmark (repaired), dustwrapper: a little sunned at spine, very good in a very good ddustwrapper,