Earl Beatty; B. McL. Ranft [editor]. The Beatty Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Early Beatty, Volume I 1902-1918. Aldershot: Published by Scolar Press for the Navy Records Society, 1989. First Edition. ISBN: 0859678075. [9988]
Blue cloth, 9 x 6 inches, issued without dust jacket, light wear to binding, tight. xxiv, 600 clean pp. Very good. Hardcover.
"Although the bulk of the volume is concerned with Beatty's part in the Great War, the first section, dealing with his career as a Captain, is included to illustrate the beginnings of his mature professional thought against the background of changing naval policy as the war approached...The guiding editorial principle has been to reproduce the documents as accurately as possible." - pp. x-xi.