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(More customer reviews)It may not be a well known fact that the Merchant Navy suffered a greater loss of manpower - in terms of the percentage of their overall strength, than any of the three military services during WW2. Of the 185,000 seamen who served, 30,000 were lost along with 2,000 ships. These men provided a "Life Line" for the islands of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which were under constant siege from enemy aircraft, ships and submarines. Without the supplies they brought to our shores, Britain would have capitulated.
In this book, Peter Elphick recounts many of the stories which have become legendary amongst seafarers and is a true tribute to all those who served - whether they survived or not.
I consider this book as essential reading for all of those with an interest in the sea and her ships. More importantly, however, it should be read by all those scuba divers who have a passion for collecting relics from sunken ships. Many of those ships were lost as a result of enemy action and this book will go a long way to explaining the price already paid in providing any diver with a collectable maritime artefact.
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Great Britain's Merchant Navy suffered proportionately the highest casualties of any of its branches of service in the Second World War. In this book, Peter Elphick tells the story of the Merchant Navy through a series of individual accounts. From countless interviews with survivors he has succeeded in portraying, in the most vivid manner possible, what it was really like to serve at sea in every theater of the war. This book redresses the balance in the history of the Second World War at sea, showing for the first time just what the sailors of the Merchant Navy had to face to keep Britain's lifeline open.
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