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Buy this book on-line WATKINS,PAUL: : MIDGET SUBMARINE COMMANDER: THE LIFE OF GODFREY PLACE VC.[Author SIGNED copy.]UK.BARNSLEY,SOUTH YORKSHIRE.PEN & SWORD MILITARY//PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD.,2012. ISBN 9781848848009.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's neat blue ink inscrptn,signature and date: 'With best wishes Paul Watkins November 2013' and no price-clip to dw/dj; wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase - virtually as new - book was presented and signed at a later date and re-wrapped.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,monochrome photographic front panel of dw/dj,colour superimposed subject's b/w portrait photographic rear panel of dw/dj with white,brown and black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain navy blue cloth bds with bright, crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine /backstrip and immaculate plain white eps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,vii-xiipp+2-244pp [paginated] includes foreword by Admiral Lord West,GCB,DSC,PC (First Sea Lord 2002-2006),author's preface,acknowledgements,16 chaptes,16pp contemporary b/w autobiographical photographs in 1 block,between pp116/7,a couple of b/w maps,appendices (I + II - Family tree and Time line),notes & bibliography,an index,plus [unpaginated] author SIGNED half-title page,title page,a contents list/table.Laid in loose, publisher's FREEPOST postcard order form.
Of all the acts of gallantry in WW2 few were as audacious as the attack by midget submarines on the pride of the German fleet,the battleship Tirpitz,lying in her heavily fortified lair deep in a Norwegian fjord.Lieutenant Godfrey Place was in command of submarine X7 in September 1943 and travelled over 1000 miles,negotiating minefields and anti-submarine nets to place four tons of high explosives under the hull of the Tirpitz.For this he was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1944,at the age of 22.
Taken prisoner he was repatriated to England at the end of the war,and continued to serve in the Royal Navy for 25 years,flying with 801 Squadron in the Korean War,and serving on aircraft carriers at Suez,Nigeria and the withdrawal from Aden.On his retirement in 1970 he had the distinction of being the last serving naval officer to hold the Victoria Cross.
This overdue biography details Godfrey Place VC's eventful life,from a childhood spent partly in East Africa to being the hugely respected Chairman of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association for over 20 years.Thanks to the author's extensive access to previously unpublished material,including Place's own recollections of the attack,there is unlikely to be a better or more thrilling account of the attack on the Tirpitz.
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