High Seas to Home: Daily Dispatches from a Frigate at War - Brossura

Allan Seabridge; Shirley Morgan; David Chadwick

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ISBN 10: 178091041X ISBN 13: 9781780910413

Casa editrice: DB Publishing, 2012

Riassunto

The conflict at sea between Allied merchant ships, their Royal Navy escorts and the German U-boats was christened the Battle of the Atlantic by Winston Churchill on 6 March 1941. Churchill said that the 'U-boat peril' was the only thing that ever really frightened him during the Second World War, but 70 years on the men who sailed on the Atlantic convoys are among the forgotten heroes of the conflict. The casualty figures underline the constant peril - almost 3,000 ships were sunk by U-boat action. Reports of torpedoed vessels sinking in under a minute sent a shudder through the nation. But what was it really like? Coder Cliff Greenwood was called up aged 40 and began his naval training at the former Butlin's holiday camp in Skegness, Lincolnshire. From then on he wrote home to his wife almost every day, although posting his letters was not always easy. The letters are a unique insight into life on the Atlantic convoys, for Cliff's duties as a specialist Royal Navy coder meant he was involved in the transmission of coded communications between the escorting warships and their Merchant Navy charges, a role that gave him rare insights into the broader strategic picture. But as well as being a rare first-hand account of life on board a Royal Navy ship on escort duties in the North Atlantic, the letters represent a rich seam of social history.

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L'autore:

Allan Seabridge had a long career as a systems engineer in aerospace, retiring as Chief Flight Systems Engineer. He worked in engineering, project management and business development, which led to the production of a number of technical articles and co- He is a Section Leader for two volumes of the Wiley Encyclopaedia of Aerospace Engineering and is involved in designing postgraduate courses for several universities. Allan lives in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, and in the 1980s wrote a number of short children's stories, some of which were adapted by the BBC as scripts for Playschool, and by Thames Television for their programme Rainbow. Shirley Morgan is a former daily newspaper journalist but after a decade moved into the defence industry and for the past 12 years has worked as a freelance business journalist. She currently writes for clients across many industrial sectors, as well as for higher education, and recently co-authored a book with Allan Seabridge on air travel and health. Married with two teenage boys and sharing the house with an ever-changing assortment of cats and giant house rabbits, she lives in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. David Chadwick is an award-winning journalist with a life-long interest in maritime history. He currently writes on economic and business issues for newspapers, magazines and online publications. Formerly a political editor on a daily paper, he later worked as press officer for the Cabinet Office and as a public relations manager for a global accountancy firm. He is also a published author and has produced numerous novels and short stories. He lives in Bolton, Greater Manchester, with his wife, two teenage sons and two jack russell terriers.

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• Editore: DB Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 178091041X
• ISBN 13: 9781780910413
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192