Under the Red Sea Sun, by E Ellsberg

Under the Red Sea Sun
Commander Edward Ellsberg
First edition

Account of the author’s experiences setting up a US Navy base at Massawa in Eritrea in 1942-43. Includes raising of block ships and floating docks left by the retreating Italians.

Hardback with dust jacket. Small pieces missing from dust jacket. Scuff along spine where  a library cataloguing number has been removed. Title page inscribed Leonard Klaber.

500 pages
A few black and white illustrations
156 mm x 217 mm (approx, 6 in x 8.75 in)
1946, Dodd, Mead & Co, NY