Buy this book on-line DYKE, DAVID HART: : FOUR WEEKS IN MAY: THE LOSS OF HMS COVENTRY - A CAPTAIN'S STORYLONDON.ATLANTIC BOOKS,2007. ISBN 9781843545903.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with white+pale blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp- cornered, publisher's original plain grey cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xxvpp+1-272pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, illus list/table,b/w maps+diagrams list/
table,5 b/w maps/diagrams,Task Force
Command+Control,acknowledgements,author's preface,HMS Coventry Battle Honours,a prologue,15 chapters,HMS Coventry Roll of Honour,Ship's Company,1982,an epilogue, diagrams,a bibliography and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and 4pp blanks at rear.
On 25 May 1982,at a critical juncture in the Falklands War,the destroyer HMS Coventry was attacked by Argentinian aircraft.In a devastating strike,she was hit by three bombs,two of which exploded inside her hull,killing nineteen of her crew and leaving many others badly injured. Within minutes,Coventry had capsized,and would finally sink off Pebble Island the following day.The loss of HMS Coventry was deeply traumatic: it was the first occasion since the Second World War that a British captain and his crew had to abandon a stricken ship and take to life rafts in the cold and unforgiving waters of the South Atlantic.
'Four Weeks in May' is the highly personal,often harrowing story of Coventry's war told by her captain,David Hart Dyke.It is the tale of a proud fighting ship of the Royal Navy and of the complex ties that bind a commander and his crew,especially in times of mortal danger. It is also the record of one man's private anxieties about his responsibilities as captain,the welfare of his men,and his wife and two young daughters back at home.
'Four Weeks in May' is a riveting account of how men prepare for a war they never expected to fight and how they endure its privations and,finally,its horrors.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/backstrip of dw/dj along with a small closed tear at head of same's front gutter's edge/fold.Top+fore-edges pristine, bright and clean - no foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - also pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain grey cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain navy blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xxvpp+1- 272pp [paginated] includes reverse of contents list/table,separate illustrations and maps+ diagrams lists/tables,5 b/w battle maps - one double-paged,a Task Force Command and Control chart,acknowledgements,a preface,HMS Coventry Battle Honours,a prologue,15 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 4pp apiece,between pp36/7 and pp212/13 respectively, HMS Coventry Roll of Honour,Ships Company 1982, an epilogue,b/w diagrams(3),a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, a dedication,verso contents list/table, title separator page and 4pp blanks at the rear of the book.
On 25 May 1982,at a critical juncture in the Falklands War,the destroyer HMS Coventry was attacked by Argentinian aircraft.In a devastating strike,she was hit by three bombs, two of which exploded inside her hull,killing nineteen of her crew and leaving many others badly injured.Within minutes,Coventry had capsized,and would finally sink off Pebble Island the following day.The loss of HMS Coventry was deeply traumatic: it was the first occasion since the Second World War that a British captain and his crew had to abandon a stricken ship and take to life rafts in the cold and unforgiving waters of the South Atlantic.
'Four Weeks in May' is the highly personal, often harrowing story of Coventry's war told by her captain,David Hart Dyke.It is the tale of a proud fighting ship of the Royal Navy and of the complex ties that bind a commander and his crew, especially in times of mortal danger.It is also the record of one man's private anxieties about his responsibilities as captain,the welfare of his men,and his wife and two young daughters back at home.
'Four Weeks in May' is a riveting account of how men prepare for a war they never expected to fight and how they endure its privations and,finally,its horrors.
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