1981 The Invergordon Mutiny

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

First edition, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper.

Inscribed by the author to the half title, to fellow writer Stephen Vizinczey, reading 'To Stephen Vizinczey, with trepidation that it may further confirm his lack of confidence in the Great and Good. Alan Ereira'.

Written by British author, historian and documentary filmmaker, Alan Ereira.

This informative historical work presents the Invergordon Mutiny of 1931, in which industrial action was taken by around one thousand sailors in the British Atlantic Fleet. Ereira highlights how this mutiny forced Britain off the Gold Standard and became known as one of the few military strikes in British history.

Illustrated with a map to the front endpapers and a diagram of the ship to the rear endpapers.

From the library of Hungarian-Canadian author Stephen Vizinczey, best known for his 'In Praise of Older Women', and 'An Innocent Millionaire'. His writing was praised by the likes of Graham Greene and Anthony Burgess, describing his fiction as social epics which breathe hope in a corrupt world.