Author Name
Bassett, Ronald.
Title HMS SHEFFIELD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF 'OLD SHINY'.
Binding Hard Cover
Book Condition Very Good -
Jacket Condition Good+
Edition First Edition
Publisher London Arms and Armour 1988
ISBN Number
0853689113 / 9780853689119
Seller ID 25501
224 pp, large 8vo (9 15/16" H). B&w maps and photographs. "The first HMS Sheffield was launched in 1936 to serve her flag bravely for thirty years. During World War Two, the cruiser became one of the most illustrious warships of all time, achieving twelve honours. In 1940, she fought in the action off Cape Spartivento; in the following year she shared in the audacious bombardment of Genoa, exchanged salvoes with Bismarck and sank one of that battleship's supply tankers, Friedrich Breme. In the Arctic a mine blew a 22-foot hole in her stern, but in an Icelandic fjord her crew fashioned a makeshift timber patch before steaming her back to Britain to fight again. In 1942, in the Barents Sea, Sheffield was in action against the 'pocket battleships' Admiral Hipper and Lutzow, and sank the German destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt. In 1943 she shared in the destruction of the battlecruiser Scharnhorst off North Cape and later supported carrier attacks upon Tirpitz. These, however, were but the highlights of this distinguished ship's wartime service. This book tells the story of her entire life and of her crews before, during and after World War Two - not from the detached perspective of an 'armchair historian', but from that of a writer who served at that time in a similar cruiser. Ronald Bassett was entrusted with research material accumulated over many years by an officer of Sheffield who died before those records could be turned into a book. Hundreds of her crew members, including several of her commanding officers, have contributed to this chronicle by means of their memoirs, diaries, letters, newspaper cuttings and photographs, enabling (the author) to paint an accurate and powerfully evocative portrait of a famous ship." Slight bump at bottom of spine, slight waviness to edges of text block, previous owner's label on free front endpaper, book cracked in several places but page signatures are holding firmly. Dust jacket has light to moderate edge wear/wrinkling, several small edge tears (two taped) and chips, light rubbing with some slight colour loss on rear panel.
Town
Class
Cruisers,
Royal
Navy,
Naval
Operations,
Second,
Captain
Charles
Addis,
Ark
Royal,
Barents
Sea,
Force
H,
Gibraltar,
Convoys,
Arthur
Clark,
Chatham,
Kent,
Flotta,
Orkneys,
Renown,
Rosyth,
Larcom,
Malta,
Luftwaffe,
Greenock,
Operation
Avalanche,
Second
World
War,
World
War
II,
Post
World
War
II,
HMS
Sheffield,
Cape
Spartivento,
Genoa,
Bismarck,
Friedrich
Breme,
Arctic,
Iceland,
Admiral
Hipper,
Lutzow,
Friedrich
Eckoldt,
Scharnhorst,
Tirpitz.
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