TERRELL (E).: Admiralty Brief. The Story of Inventions that contributed to Victory in the Battle of the Atlantic. IN THE DUST-WRAPPER , Harrap, [1958]

8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 33 plates on 28, front endpaper chart in red, green and black, and double-page folding plan at end; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the d/w. The remarkable story of how an eminent lawyer became one of the war's most effective inventors. Commissioned into the RNVR, Terrell was the originator of 'plastic armour', the 'scorpion', and the 'rocket bomb', all of which played a role in the fight against the U-boats. Scarce in this condition. Enser, p.403; Law 1253. (Book ref. 19602)  £48.00

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