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VALIANT
OCCAISIONS

J. E. MacDonnell

FOREWORD BY ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM COLLINS

 First published 1952
CONSTABLE and COMPANY LTD., LONDON

Bound book; blue cloth with silver lettering to spine which is faded to a lighter blue than the boards. A few fox spots to first and last couple of pages ut pages generally clean and bright. Condition - GOOD PLUS - VERY GOOD.

 

£4.00 + P & P

CONTENTS

 
   
 
  FOREWORD BY ADMIRAL SIR JOHN COLLINS
 
  PREFACE
Chapter
I.
   TEETH AND CLAWS .
 
II.
   H.M.A.S. SYDNEY'S FATE
 
III.
   STUART OF MATAPAN
 
IV.
   FROM DAKAR TO LINGAYEN
 
V.
   THE " CROOK "
 
VI.
   PRINCE OF WALES AND REPULSE
 
VII.
   STAND—BY TO RAM!
 
VIII.
   EXIT VAMPIRE—FIGHTING
 
IX.
   SLOOP versus JAP SQUADRON
 
X.
   THE TIRPITZ CRIPPLED
 
XI.
   JAVA SEA BATTLE
 
XII.
   CORAL SEA VICTORY
 
XII.
   NESTOR OF THE N'S .
 
XIV.
   LIFEBOAT
 
XV.
   ATLANTIC CONVOY .
 
XVI.
   CANBERRA AT SAVO ISLAND
 
XVII.
   THE EPIC OF THE JERVIS BAY
 
XVIII.
   THE BATTLE OF THE PLATE
 
XIX.
   THE BISMARCK CHALLENGE

The author

James Edmund MacDonnell was born in Queensland in 1917 and served in the Royal Australian Navy from the age of seventeen retiring after fourteen years as a commisioned gunnery officer. He started writing while serving and had hundreds of titles published under his own name and various nom de plumes. He died in 2002.

A very good appreciation of his life and his books can be found at this site:-

http://members.westnet.com.au/epchatter/jem/iown.htm

Also, of course, at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._E._Macdonnell

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