Buy this book on-line STONE, WILLIAM: : HERO OF THE FLEET: TWO WORLD WARS, ONE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE - THE MEMOIRS OF CENTENARIAN WILLIAM STONESCOTLAND.EDINBURGH.MAINSTREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY (EDINBURGH) LTD.,2009. ISBN 9781845965082.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,subject's colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with blue+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain beige cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9- 256pp [paginated] includes foreword (by HRH Prince Andrew),15 chapters,24pp contemporary autobiographical b/w+colour photographs in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp64/5,pp128/9 and pp192/3 respectively,appendices(2), acknowledgements,a bibliography and an epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, contents list/table with b/w map to verso,and another 2 b/w maps.
William Stone died on Saturday,9 January 2009 aged 108.He received a hero's funeral.Born in rural Devon,he joined the navy during the First World War,travelled the globe just before the British Empire's light began to fade and saw action in some of the most significant sea battles of the Second World War.Afterwards,he returned to Devon to run a barber's shop,an altogether more peaceable existence.
Through his years of retirement,he tended his garden,unaware that celebrity was stalking him.As time passed,he became one of a dwindling number of men who served in the Great War.This meant that for some of the most momentous anniversaries clocked up recently - including the 90th anniversary of the end of the the First World War - William was a guest of honour. His life bridged two wars and encompassed the remarkable episodes and adventures that fell to a British sailor of the era. Just one among many,he played his part diligently and with distinction to help shape our world.It was an ordinary life lived in extraordinary times,and he brushed with many of the significant events of his era.He died at a time when the navy is attempting to embrace new ships that bear scant resemblance to those that William knew so well and face the challenges of a world that shrinks with every bold technological advance.His was a different kind of boldness.This is his astonishing story.
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