Citizen Sailors
New York, 2011; hardback, cm 15,5x24.
ISBN: 0-670-91854-7
- EAN13: 9780670918546
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Weight: 0.78 kg
A ground-breaking history of the Royal Navy during WWII, told by the sailors themselves and covering everything from the great battles of the Atlantic and the Arctic convoys to the fall of Singapore and Hong Kong. It draws on collections of diaries and letters by men and women who served, and is a compelling account of daily humanity, horror, triumph and tragedy; it also conveys how the Navy fought using every conceivable type of vessel from aircraft carriers to fast motor boats, rickety minseweepers to ageing submarines.