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Ordeal By Water by Peter Keeble 1958 First Edition

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Ordeal By Water by Peter Keeble 1958 First Edition

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Ordeal By Water. Peter Keeble. Stated 1958 First Edition published by Doubleday in New York. 216 pages + frontispiece + 10 illustrations on 3 plates leaves. Headpiece illustrations at the beginning of each chapter. Naval salvage. Includes account of work of the divers in World War Two - "On another occasion, he and his men acted as human minesweepers when they crawled about the bottom of a Greek harbor, marking the mines with buoys. And with one of his Petty Officers, in what the great authority, Sir Robert Davis, has described as 'perhaps the most outstanding underwater cutting operation ever undertaken', he burnt the damaged screws off the 'Valiant' in the course of an ordeal that has lefts its marks on him to this day. Often working almost sightless in filthy, oil-laden water, encumbered by heavy, clinging diving gear, treading always warily for fear of booby traps. Like new in like new dust jacket.

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