Broome, Captain Jack, — CONVOY IS TO SCATTER.
William Kimber, London, 1972, 1st edn., 232pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., maps, line drawings / cartoons in text, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, the tragic story of the fated convoy PQ17 of 36 British and American ships to Russia in June/July, 1942. The author was in command of the senior escort destroyer, HMS Keppel, and relates with all the relevant signals received and sent the story of the conoy, which includes when the convoy was sent the message by the British Admiralty to scatter, allowing most of the merchant vessels to be picked off at will by u-boats or the Luftwaffe, light bump head of spine, edges tanned and a little foxed, dustwrapper: sunned at spine and flap folds, relined at head of spine, very good in a very good dustwrapper,
