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Binding: Softcover

Pages: 800

Recommended Reading selection

See also other edition(s):
   John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2004 - Hardcover
   John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2005 - Softcover

See also more books from:
   Richard Woodman

See also more books on the same topic(s):
   Atlantic convoys
   Convoys and naval transport operations
   Merchant fleets
   Naval operations in the North Atlantic
   The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945
   United Kingdom: Convoys and naval transport operations
   United Kingdom: Merchant navy

See also references to this book:
   Reference in news archive May 2011

Feedback from visitors

Feedback from K. W. Jenner on Thursday, 3 August 2006

Rates this book:

Having been an avid reader for the past 60 years, this must be the saddest but one of the most important books that I have ever read. It is a book that I think all people should read
at some time during their life - if for no other reason other thanto fully acquaint themselves with the sacrifice made by the common allied civilian merchant mariners, and their naval and airborne escorts. I have sailed the Atlantic myself many times as a merchant seaman but it is only now that I am truly aware of howmany sailors perished
in those same waters, and how unsung those same sailors' lives were. Read it. It is well
written but it won't make you happy, but you will learn a great deal whether you like what you read or not. And, as always, Richard Woodman's research and maritime knowledge appears unquestionable, and answers many questions that you may never even have thought to ask.

Feedback from Anonymous on Thursday, 11 September 2008

Rates this book:

Woodman's inclusion of stories of loss of merchant seamen at very personal level is never allowed to interfere with his clear-eyed narrative of developments in the convoy war. Very good.

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