CONVOY PEEWIT AUGUST 8 1940: THE FIRST DAY OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN?
Written by Andy Saunders
Published by Grub Street
in 2010
ISBN: 9781906502676
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- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR II
- MARITIME
- NAVY
- RAF
CONVOY PEEWIT AUGUST 8 1940: THE FIRST DAY OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN?
Written by Andy Saunders.
Stock no. 1829928
1st.
2010.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
A blow by blow account, from the perspective of the RAF, Luftwaffe, Merchant Navy, Royal Navy and Kriegsmarine, of the twenty merchant ships in Convoy CW9 Peewit as it edged past Dover and was attacked by German E-Boats. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. 215 pages including index. ISBN: 9781906502676. A lovely copy, looks unread!
Front cover
Contents
- Opening Shots
- A Disgraceful Episode
- The Indestructible Highway
- Attack of the E-Boats
- Up Balloons...!
- Unwitting Decoys
- The Second Air Attack
- Fighting the Stukas
- Final Assault
- Puma versus Peewit
- Elsewhere that Day
- Aftermath
- 8 August 1940 in Retrospect
- Seventy Years On
- Appendices
- Bibliography