Gordon & Donald Maxwell A & C Black 1920 The Naval Front Hardcover w/Dustjacket

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The Naval Front

by

Gordon S Maxwell
Illustrated In Colour and Monochrome by Donald Maxwell

Hardcover. 8vo. A. & C. Black, Ltd, London, UK. 1920.  xii, 203 pages of text. Illustrated  with 16 colour and 16 black and white full page plates. First Edition/First Printing

DJ has shelf-wear, rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities (DJ is chipped and worn at the crown and heel of the DJ). Bound in blue decorative cloth binding with gilt titles present to the spine and the front board. Boards lightly faded and worn. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Offsetting present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid,

The Maxwell brothers were both serving officers in the RNVR. Donald, the elder, was a well known naval artist before the war and after service in the North Sea was appointed in 1918 Admiralty Official Artist travelling to Mesopotamia and Palestine to do pictures for the Imperial War Museum. Gordon served in the Dover Patrol and was mentioned in despatches at the Zeebrugge Raid in April 1918 when he was in coimmand of H.M. M.L.314.

Their book is a record of naval actions during the Great War and includes accounts of the destruction of the EMDEN and KONIGSBERG ; British submarines at the Heligoland Bight action; Coronel and the Falklands; Dogger Bank; Jutland; the Dover Patrol; Zeebrugge; Ostend; Mediterranean and Eastern actions; the Merchant Navy; the U.S. Navy all these subjects are described and illustrated by these two talented brothers who had first-hand experience of naval warfare.