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Naval Eyewitnesses - The Experience of War at Sea, 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
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Naval Eyewitnesses - The Experience of War at Sea, 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
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Although many books have been written about naval actions during
the Second World War - histories and memoirs in particular - few
books have attempted to encompass the extraordinary variety of the
experience of the war at sea. That is why James Goulty's viv-id
survey is of such value. Sailors in the Royal Navy and the Merchant
Navy experienced a war fought on a massive scale, on every ocean of
the world, in a diverse range of ves-sels, from battleships,
aircraft carriers and submarines to merchant ships and fishing
boats. Their recollections are as varied as the ships they served
in, and they take the reader through the entire maritime war, as it
was perceived at the time by those who had direct, personal
knowledge of it. Throughout the book the emphasis is on the
experience of individuals - their recruit-ment and training, their
expectations and the reality they encountered on active service in
many different offensive and defensive roles including convoy duty
and coastal de-fence, amphibious operations, hunting U-boats and
surface raiders, mine sweeping and manning landing and rescue
craft. A particularly graphic section describes, in the words of
the sailors themselves, what action against the enemy felt like and
the impact of casualties - seamen who were wounded or killed on
board or were lost when their ships sank. A fascinating inside view
of the maritime warfare emerges which may be less heroic than the
image created by some post-war accounts, but it gives readers today
a much more realistic impression of the whole gamut of wartime life
at sea.
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