RUNNING THE PALESTINE BLOCKADE
The Last Voyage of the Paducah
1994
First American Edition/Second Printing
Naval Institute Press [Annapolis, MD]
Biblio: aa
8vo (223 pages; photographic frontispiece)
Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Cream and purple cloth]
Item Number: 7169
$35.00
Description
This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. The 1947 clandestine transport of 1,388 Bulgarian refugees to British Palestine on a former U.S. gunboat by the Jewish underground and volunteer American sailors; they were captured and interred on Cyrprus. By the captain of the Paducah.