First published to huge acclaim during the war it describes, Very
Ordinary Seaman relates-with humanity, humour and the authority of
experience-lower-deck life in the British navy, from basic training
to service on a destroyer protecting a convoy to Arctic Russia, a
mission which came under heavy attack by air and sea, and from
which many did not return. "When Very Ordinary Seaman first
appeared in the spring of 1944, V. S. Pritchett of the New
Statesman described it as `One of the best pieces of documentary
writing that I have come across during the war.' Elizabeth Bowen
wrote in The Tatler, `the last chapters of Very Ordinary Seaman did
leave me breathless; and also, feeling that we have known too
little.' John Betjeman wrote, `This is so sincere and truthful, so
much both, that you are held all the time... You become part of the
community life of the ship, so that despite the dangers, boredom
and discomfort you step ashore reluctantly.' By any standards this
was a remarkable performance for a writer who was wearing the
uniform of an ordinary seaman and sitting in a busy, overcrowded
naval office `facing a blank wall and typing myself dry.'" - from
Brian Lavery's Introduction
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