Naval History

Lieutenant H. Henty-Creer’s Attack on the “Tirpitz”, illustrations from b&w photographs, maps, appendices, bibliography & index, 239 pp, blue boards in d/w, top & base of spine & corners a little bumped, spotting to closed edges of pages and to d/w, otherwise good, William Kimber 1988

23.3 x 14.3 cm, 540g, ISBN 0 71830 628 7

The authors’ expedition failed to find any trace of the missing mini-submarine X5, but a later expedition for the BBC’s “Timewatch” TV programme found one (but not both) of what was almost certainly X5’s saddle-mines, and a wreck not far away which could have been X5 (see the BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/tirpitz_heroes_01.shtml).  Henty-Creer was recommended for a VC, but it has never been awarded.

See also the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.