At the outbreak of World War II the author joined the Navy at the age of 20 as an Ordinary Signalman. In 1941 he was posted abroad and was not to return to Britain until 1945, having spent over two years as a Prisoner-of-War. Throughout all this time he wrote regular letters home and kept a detailed diary and these, edited by his widow, form the basis of this account of an ordinary man caught up in the horror of war.
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At the outbreak of World War II the author joined the Navy at the age of 20 as an Ordinary Signalman. In 1941 he was posted abroad and was not to return to Britain until 1945, having spent over two years as a Prisoner-of-War. Throughout all this time he wrote regular letters home and kept a detailed diary and these, edited by his widow, form the basis of this account of an ordinary man caught up in the horror of war.
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