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Two Years Below The Horn. A Personal Memoir of Operation Tabarin

By: Taylor Andrew

Price: £32.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2017

Edition: 2017 First Edition

Seller ID: 70279

ISBN: 1852971177

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 351pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.

Early in 1944, nine men landed on a tiny, barren island off the west coast of the Graham Land Peninsula in Antarctica. Armed with only a small assortment of rifles and pistols and with an obselete 12 pounder mounted on the bows of their decrepit supply vessel, officially, their purpose was to prevent German U-boats and surface raiders from using Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic harbours for refuelling and resupply. Unofficially, they were tasked with reasserting British territorial rights in the face of increasingly confident incursions by neutral argentina. This two year expedition, code-named Ope...
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Two Years Below The Horn. A Personal Memoir of Operation Tabarin

By: Taylor Andrew

Price: £32.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2017

Edition: 2017 First Edition

Seller ID: 70280

ISBN: 1852971177

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 351pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.

Early in 1944, nine men landed on a tiny, barren island off the west coast of the Graham Land Peninsula in Antarctica. Armed with only a small assortment of rifles and pistols and with an obselete 12 pounder mounted on the bows of their decrepit supply vessel, officially, their purpose was to prevent German U-boats and surface raiders from using Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic harbours for refuelling and resupply. Unofficially, they were tasked with reasserting British territorial rights in the face of increasingly confident incursions by neutral argentina. This two year expedition, code-named Ope...
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Two Years Below The Horn. A Personal Memoir of Operation Tabarin

By: Taylor Andrew

Price: £32.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press: 2017

Edition: 2017 First Edition

Seller ID: 70281

ISBN: 1852971177

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 351pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.

Early in 1944, nine men landed on a tiny, barren island off the west coast of the Graham Land Peninsula in Antarctica. Armed with only a small assortment of rifles and pistols and with an obselete 12 pounder mounted on the bows of their decrepit supply vessel, officially, their purpose was to prevent German U-boats and surface raiders from using Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic harbours for refuelling and resupply. Unofficially, they were tasked with reasserting British territorial rights in the face of increasingly confident incursions by neutral argentina. This two year expedition, code-named Ope...
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