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Gardiner, Leslie. The eagle spreads his claws : a history of the Corfu channel dispute and of Albania's relations with the West, 1945 - 1965. First edition, inscribed and signed by the author to ffep. London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1966. Hardback, VG, in unclipped dustjacket, bumped to corners, tanned to spine, with light shelfwear and a small closed tear to reverse top. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Endpapers illustrated with maps. 286pp., contents clean and bright. Educated in King Edward VI School, Stafford, England, Lieutenant Commander Gardiner joined the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman in 1939. He served in the battleships Rodney and Royal Sovereign. A prisoner of war after the loss of the destroyer Bedouin in 1942, he escaped from the Germans the following year. He served in minesweepers and a submarine squadron from 1945 until his retirement in 1956. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. We do not use AI and all images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.
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