The War At Sea 1939-45

Informationen zum Autor John Winton joined the Royal Navy in 1949 as a cadet and retired in 1963 as a Lieutenant-Commander. He is widely known as a novelist and historian of the sea. His books include the novels A Drowning War and Aircraft Carrier , and works of non-fiction such as Find, Fix and Strike: The Fleet Air Arm at War 1939-45 , War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay , Air Power at Sea 1939-1945 , The Death of the 'Scharnhorst' , Ultra at Sea and Ultra in the Pacific . He died in 2001. Klappentext An anthology of personal experience selected and edited by John Winton. The Second World War produced hundreds of actions and incidents at sea which were packed with drama and suspense, and which evoked the greatest heroism. Zusammenfassung An anthology of personal experience selected and edited by John Winton. The Second World War produced hundreds of actions and incidents at sea which were packed with drama and suspense, and which evoked the greatest heroism.

Vorwort
Volume I in a unique trilogy of books which comprise brilliantly vivid eyewitness accounts of war at sea, in the air and on land in the Second World War. Here are the victories and defeats, the extraordinary and the typical, the tragic and the comic

Autorentext
John Winton joined the Royal Navy in 1949 as a cadet and retired in 1963 as a Lieutenant-Commander. He is widely known as a novelist and historian of the sea. His books include the novels A Drowning War and Aircraft Carrier, and works of non-fiction such as Find, Fix and Strike: The Fleet Air Arm at War 1939-45, War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, Air Power at Sea 1939-1945, The Death of the 'Scharnhorst', Ultra at Sea and Ultra in the Pacific. He died in 2001.

Klappentext

An anthology of personal experience selected and edited by John Winton. The Second World War produced hundreds of actions and incidents at sea which were packed with drama and suspense, and which evoked the greatest heroism.