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Crash Start - The Life and Legacy of Lieutenant Richard Guy Ormonde Hudson DSC Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Hardcover)
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Crash Start - The Life and Legacy of Lieutenant Richard Guy Ormonde Hudson DSC Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R555
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In 1940 a first-year student at Oxford gave up his legal studies to
serve his country in its time of need. He served with valour and
distinction, receiving the Distinguished Service Cross for
developing and then delivering battlewinning tactics that protected
the flanks of the D-Day landings. But Guy Hudson also saw things
that cannot be unseen, and experienced the horrors of war that
become tattooed on one's soul. This is the story of a brave and
patriotic sailor who helped sink the German battleship Bismarck,
drove his Motor Torpedo Boat into enemy harbours right under the
muzzles of Axis guns, and then pioneered radar control procedures
for the small torpedo and gun boats that careered across pitch-dark
maritime battlefields to guard the Allied landings in northern
France. It is also the story of a man who turned to alcohol to
control the darker memories created by war, and whose life and
business collapsed due to the demon of drink, before he was rescued
by his second wife. His legacy now lives on at the University of
Oxford through the Guy Hudson Memorial Trust - this biography is
his tribute.
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