Midshipman Wickham by Ralph D. Paine 1926 and 12 similar items

Midshipman Wickham by Ralph D. Paine 1926 Houghton Mifflin Midshipman Wickham Ralph D. Paine Houghton Mifflin 1926 220 pages Black and white frontispiece The binding has a break in the middle, otherwise its in acceptable condition. The pages are clean but lightly tanned. There is a name stamped twice on the front end papers. The cover is rubbed and showing some edge wear and fading. Good. Hardcover. Chapter 1: It was more like home than any other place he knew. After long service with a destroyer division in the midst of the weltering miseries and hatreds of the Near East, Lieutenant Commander David Magowan had been ordered to the Naval Academy at Annapolis for shore duty as one of the staff of instructors. His own four years as a midshipman had begun to seem rather distant, although he still rated himself as a fairly young man. In the bachelors' mess of the Officers' Club he found congenial quarters. Here were old friends whose yarns recalled the hard and hazardous cruises in the war zone, convoy duty in the Bay of Biscay or bucking the winter gales off the Irish coast. (#0000880)