This preowned hardback book, with dust jacket and 216 pages, is in very good condition.
The book was written by Carson Ritchie, and published by Terence Dalton in 1985..
Faced with the threat of underwater attacks on merchant shipping on the world's trade routes, and in particular in the approaches to Britain's home waters, officers of the Royal Navy hit on the idea of equipping small vessels of various kinds with hidden armament. Plodding along the sea lanes under the disguise of harmless neutral merchantmen, these decoys soon became known from their pendant numbers as Q-Ships.