Article: The Imperial War Museum Book of the War at Sea: The Royal Navy in the Second World War

THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM BOOK OF THE WAR AT SEA: THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

by Julian Thompson (Sidgwick & Jackson in association with the Imperial War Museum, 1996), f25.00, 279 pages

The Imperial War Museum holds major archives of personal reminiscences, photographs and paintings and has taken to putting them together to form a series of attractive and worthwhile books. This new volume examines the Royal Navy in the time of its greatest trial between 1939 and 1945. In its pages one finds a unique insight into how both officers and men reacted to the test of war, from the Able Seaman who was in the cells the day war broke out, to the escort destroyer commander who brought ...

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