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Very Good. First edition. 342pp. Navy cloth boards with gilt tiles and decorations. Very good with foxing, a cocked spine, and bumped spine ends and corners. Lacking the dustwrapper. History of the England's Navy and their influence on World War I.
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Good. ix, [1], 342 pages. Maps. Cover has some wear and soiling. Embossed stamp on fep. Some page discoloration, Paperclip marks at rear pages. Frederick Harcourt Kitchin, (c. 1867-1932) was a British journalist, statistician and author. Kitchin was the publisher of The Times Financial and Commercial Supplement from 1904 to 1908 and was an internationally recognized statistician in the field of nutrition. In 1918, Kitchin edited the Board of Trade Journal and in 1925, he co-wrote the autobiography of managing director of The Times, Charles Frederic Moberly Bell: Moberly Bell and his Times. Kitchin also wrote a number of books about the Royal Navy: The Secret of the Navy; What It Is and What We Owe to It (1918) and The Silent Watchers; England's Navy During the Great War; What It Is, and What We Owe to It. (1918). Under the pseudonym of Bennet Copplestone, he wrote a number of adventures including The Lost Naval Papers (1917), The Last of the Grenvilles (1919), Madame Gilbert's Cannibal (1920), The Treasure of Golden Cap (1922) and Dead Men's Tales (1926). Scarce work concerning the English Navy, "at once a record, an explanation and an appreciation, this remarkable book affords the American reader practically his first opportunity to realize the spirit and the meaning of that vast unsleeping power, the British navy, and what it has meant to the world during the present war". From a Note early in the book: Between June, 1916, and February, 1918, I contributed a good many articles and sketches on Naval subjects to The Cornhill Magazine. They were not designed upon any plan or published in any settled sequence. As one article led up to another, and information came to me from my generously appreciative readers (many of whom were in the Service), I revised those which I had written and ventured to write still more. This book contains my Cornhill articles-revised and sometimes re-written in the light of wider information and kindly criticism-and several additional chapters which have not previously been published anywhere. I have endeavored to weave into a connected series articles and sketches which were originally disconnected, and I have introduced new strands to give strength to the fabric. Through the whole runs a golden thread which I have called The Secret of the Navy.
