Angus Konstam

The British Sailor of the Second World War (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the dramatic story of how the Royal Navy transformed ordinary citizens into first-rate sailors and navy personnel during the Second World War. It covers how they were recruited and trained and how they endured life at sea in hostile waters, protecting convoys in the Mediterranean, hunting submarines in the Atlantic, and standing up to relentless air attacks in the Pacific. Told through vivid first-hand accounts of life onboard, it reveals what it was like to be a sailor navigating, patrolling, and fighting in the largest theatre of the war - the vast oceans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 56
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780747814429
• Artikelnr.: 40421093

Autorenporträt

Angus Konstam is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has written widely on naval history, with well over a hundred books in print. He is a former Royal Navy officer, maritime archaeologist and museum curator, who has worked in the Royal Armouries, Tower of London, and Mel Fisher Maritime Museum. Now a full-time author and historian, he lives in Orkney.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Learning the Ropes
Life on Board
A Cruel Sea
Fury in the Mediterranean
In Eastern Seas
Demobilisation
Suggested reading
Places to visit
Index