Naval Eyewitnesses: The Experience of War at Sea, 1939–1945
Naval Eyewitnesses: The Experience of War at Sea, 1939–1945
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1399000713 | 264 Pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1399000713 | 264 Pages | EPUB | 3 MB
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 vivid 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 vessels, 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.