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Ian Jack: The Royal Navy, 2 January 2003
Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900-45
by Christopher McKee.
Harvard, 285 pp., £19.95, May 2002,0 674 00736 0 Show More
by Christopher McKee.
Harvard, 285 pp., £19.95, May 2002,
Rule Britannia: The Victorian and Edwardian Navy
by Peter Padfield.
Pimlico, 246 pp., £12.50, August 2002,0 7126 6834 9 Show More
by Peter Padfield.
Pimlico, 246 pp., £12.50, August 2002,
“... was to keep the boilers fired and steam up. Films ranging from the wartime In Which We Serve to James Cameron’s Titanic have portrayed the scramble for the ladder and the closing watertight door when the ship tilts and the sea pours in – the perfect ingredients for the audience’s later claustrophobic nightmares. But how did men live with this fearful ... ”
