DESTROYER by Conway Maritime Press
There is no more vivid and poignant account than one at first hand, and Editor Ian Hawkins has drawn together numerous stories from those men who served on the 'B' class destroyers and others, weaving them seamlessly together using excerpts from books, news articles, speeches and his own authoritative notes.
Ian Hawkins, of Bacton, Suffolk, became interested in the history of the Second World War as a young boy growing up surrounded by operational airfields and military installations in East Anglia. This is his fifth book about the war during which his father, a Royal Navy destroyer commander, and an uncle, a Royal Air Force squadron leader, were both killed in action. A former civil engineer, he sustained very severe head injuries in an axe attack by a crazed alcoholic shortly after arriving in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in December 1976 to work on a tunnelling project. He is now confined to a wheelchair and has had to learn to write left-handed as his right side and both legs are paralysed.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781844860081 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844860086 |
| Title | DESTROYER |
| Author | Conway Maritime Press |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2005-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 592 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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