FROGMAN SPY.

WELHAM, M. G. AND J. A.

£15.00

Publisher

W. H. Allen.

Place

London

Date

1990

Synopsis

The mysterious disappearance of commander 'buster' crabb.

Item Description

8vo. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. x + 179 pp. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. A very good copy. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Illustrated by 8 pages of black and white plates. Commander Lionel Kenneth Philip Crabb (b.1909) was transferred from the Royal Navy to carry out special underwater espionage missions for British Naval Intelligence and MI6. He disappeared in connection with the visiting Soviet cruiser, Ordzhonokidze in Portsmouth in 1956. The case has remained a subject of controversial speculation ever since and is here investigated by Michael G. Welham, former Royal Marine Commando and experienced diver.

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