Gretton, Vice-Admiral Sir Peter, KCB, DSO, OBE, DSC, — CONVOY ESCORT COMMANDER.
Cassell, London, 1964, 2nd edn., xvi, 224pp, 20pp half tone photo ills., 4 charts in text, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, at the outbreak of WW2 the author held the rank of Lieutenant and was 1st Lieutenant of a East Coast escort destroyer HMS Vega and then HMS Cossack during her Narvik involvement, before his first command, the destroyer HMS Sabre, then HMS Brocklesby (briefly, escorting Channel convoys), HMS Wolverine and Escort Group B7. The account covers the development of convoy protection and tactics against the u-boats, as well as details of the Atlantic convoys HX231, ONS5, SC130, ON206, ONS20, ON207, ON208 and HX263.edges tanned and lightly foxed, ink stamp 'store' on title, prelims. numbered by hand in ink, several in text corrections to layout, probably the publisher's or printers library copy used to prepare the amendments for a subsequent edition, dustwrapper: surface rubbing and soiling, ink stamp 'store' on upper panel, very good in a good dustwrapper,
