Buy this book on-line GRIFFITHS**, WILLIAM: : My Darling Children: War from the Lower Deck.**LONDON.LEO COOPER,1992. ISBN 085052332X.
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plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-165pp [paginated] includes 13 chapters and an epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,contents list/table,foreword by Sir Michael Horden,CBE,acknowledgements and a prologue.
Many miles of shelves have been covered by books about the Naval History of WW2.
Every aspect of strategy and tactics has been minutely examined,the careers of the great commanders have been subjected to rigorous scrutiny,and the decisions of those ashore who sent men down to the sea in ships have been analysed in depth.
There was,of course,under every commander
of whatever rank,a spreading pyramid of lesser mortals without whose labour,
loyalty,obedience and good humour the ship
would simply not sail.Search those miles of shelves with diligence and you will find it hard to discover much which tells you anything about the life of those men who actually kept the propellers turning. The author of this book,William Griffiths,
was one of them.During the course of the war he experienced,as did so many other sailors,almost every aspect of service that the Royal Navy had to offer; training,convoy duty in destroyers and corvettes,submarine attacks,surface warfare,the Med,the North Cape,the Atlantic,the Far East; it all came his way,including the amphibious assaults on the beaches of Sicily,Salerno,Anzio,and D-Day in Normandy.He was sunk twice; once in a Tank Landing Ship,and again in a Russian convoy - in February at sixty degrees below.
His account may be called fictional since
no real names are mentioned and no specific encounters described,but he does,
as Sir Michael Horden,who shared many of his experiences,says in his Foreword,
reveal what it was like to serve,to suffer,but above all to enjoy life on the lower deck.
William Griffiths does not mince his words,but,as he says,that is what it was like and the atmosphere and the idiom has now been put on record,and for that the Senior Service should be grateful to him.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NMINT/NMINT.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated blue+black photographic upper wrap with blue+white lettering; b/w photographic rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and pristine - an unread copy.Publisher's original, sharp-cornered,clean,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-165pp [paginated] includes 13 chapters and an epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,contents list/table,foreword by Sir Michael Horden,CBE, acknowledgements and a prologue.
Many miles of shelves have been covered by books about the Naval History of WW2. Every aspect of strategy and tactics has been minutely examined,the careers of the great commanders have been subjected to rigorous scrutiny,and the decisions of those ashore who sent men down to the sea in ships have been analysed in depth. There was,of course,under every commander of whatever rank,a spreading pyramid of lesser mortals without whose labour,loyalty,obedience and good humour the ship would simply not sail. Search those miles of shelves with diligence and you will find it hard to discover much which tells you anything about the life of those men who actually kept the propellers turning.
The author of this book,William Griffiths, was one of them.During the course of the war he experienced,as did so many other sailors,almost every aspect of service that the Royal Navy had to offer; training,convoy duty in destroyers and corvettes,submarine attacks,surface warfare,the Med,the North Cape,the Atlantic,the Far East; it all came his way,including the amphibious assaults on the beaches of Sicily,Salerno,Anzio, and D-Day in Normandy.He was sunk twice; once in a Tank Landing Ship,and again in a Russian convoy - in February at sixty degrees below.
His account may be called fictional since no real names are mentioned and no specific encounters described,but he does,as Sir Michael Horden,who shared many of his experiences,says in his Foreword,reveal what it was like to serve,to suffer,but above all to enjoy life on the lower deck.
William Griffiths does not mince his words,but, as he says,that is what it was like and the atmosphere and the idiom has now been put on record,and for that the Senior Service should be grateful to him.
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