Author: BACON, ADMIRAL SIR REGINALD
Title: The Dover Patrol 1915-1917. (2 vols.)
Description: London Hutchinson, 1919.. First Edition, second Impression XXXIV + X + 643 p, with 2 portrait frontispieces, photo's, (fold) maps, titles in red and black, 2 large folding maps coloured in outline, index HARDCOVER: (Or. blue cloth with gilt backs,, some library stamps, else VERY GOOD) ¶ The standard history of the legendary naval force, charged with safeguarding the Channel throughout WWI. Written by the commander who led it during most of the critical period of the war, but who was superseded for political reasons before the great operations he had planned (the mine-barrage and the attack on Zeebrugge) could come to fruition. Admiral Sir Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon KCB, KCVO, DSO (6 September 1863 - 9 June 1947) was an officer in the Royal Navy noted for his technical abilities. He was described by the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Jacky Fisher, as the man "acknowledged to be the cleverest officer in the Navy".

Keywords: history World War I Maritime Naval operations Rare and collectable


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