Citizen Sailors: The Royal Navy in the Second World War Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Citizen Sailors: The Royal Navy in the Second World War Book

'The deck and the bridge were pointing to the sky at an alarming angle and our thoughts were to get the devil out of it and into the water. Almost in unison we shouted "for God's sake jump boys".' "Citizen Sailors" is a groundbreaking people's history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War. Drawing on hundreds of contemporary diaries and letters along with memoirs oral history and official documents Glyn Prysor tells the human story of Britain's war at sea. The sailors of the Royal Navy fought from the very first day of the war until the very last. They played a vital part in a truly global war from America to Australia and from the Arctic to South Africa. They fought in every conceivable vessel: vast aircraft carriers and cramped corvettes fast motor boats and rickety minesweepers Swordfish biplanes and ageing submarines. Seen through the eyes of sailors themselves this is a compelling account of life in the wartime Royal Navy: humanity and horror triumphs and tragedies nerve-wracking convoys and epic gun battles devastating aerial bombardment and swashbuckling amphibious landings."Citizen Sailors" puts the Royal Navy and its sailors back at the heart of the story of Britain's Second World War.Read More

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    Seen through the eyes of sailors themselves this title gives an account of life in the wartime Royal Navy: humanity and horror triumphs and tragedies nerve-wracking convoys and epic gun battles devastating aerial bombardment and swashbuckling amphibious landings.

  • Penguin

    ' ''She's hit! My God, we've got her.'' All over the ship a cheer went up, audible above the gunfire. I had risen half standing in my seat as the wild thrill took hold of me.' Royal Marine Lieutenant Bryce Ramsden, HMS Jamaica, 1943 on the sinking of the Scharnhorst.

  • 0670918547
  • 9780670918546
  • Glyn Prysor
  • 25 August 2011
  • Viking
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 576
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