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    Reference 3610 (1895)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Pearce, Gerry
    Title Operation Tabarin and its Postal History
    Publishing Information UK:Privately Published by Author, 2018 9781789265804
    Description 1st Edition: SIGNED by author on title page. Softcover, 303 pages, illustrated throughout. Operation Tabarin was originally conceived as a means by which to safeguard the Falkland Islands from Japanese invasion and to deny harbours in the sub-Antarctic territories to German surface raiders and U-boats, the expedition also sought to re-assert British sovereignty in the face of incursions by neutral Argentina. As well as setting in train a sequence of events that would eventually culminate in the Falklands War, the British bases secretly established in 1944 would go on to play a vital part in the Cold War and lay the foundations for one of the most important and enduring government-sponsored programmes of scientific research in the polar regions: the British Antarctic Survey BAS). A fascinating history by a member of BAS in the 60's who was a marine biologist and scuba diver, working in Antarctica who later became president of the Polar Postal History Society of Great Britain.
    Price £30.00
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