Citizen Sailors

During the Second World War the Royal Navy was the most powerful of Britain's armed forces. Its sailors fought across globe in battleships and claustrophobic corvettes and silent submarines. They endured nerve-wracking convoys, fought epic gun battles, carried out secret missions, rescued armies and landed the largest invasion force in history.

Reviews

Reads extremely well, with a gripping narrative that explains the unfolding of the war whilst weaving in moving and vivid personal accounts...This is a book that manages to fuse the strategic with the human and the social with consummate skill, and in so doing it delivers a multifaceted understanding of the war at sea as well as a poignant reminder of the way in which society has lost its 'sea vision'