{"product_id":"fighting-captain-book-alan-burn-9781844154395","title":"Fighting Captain","description":"Captain F J Walker, RN, did more than any other man at sea to win the Battle of the Atlantic, a vicious and unrelenting struggle which Churchill described as the dominating factor throughout World War Two. He was a formidable figure and one of the greatest fighting captains in  the Royal Navy, sinking twenty U-boats.  For this he was awarded a CB and four DSOs. A month after D-Day, exhausted by his continuous actions at sea against the enemy and his successful exertions to keep the U-boats out of the English Channel to ensure the safe passage of the Allied landings at D-day, he went ashore in Liverpool after a patrol.  His ships and the men he had trained and inspired were already back at sea when he died on the 9 July, 1944, aged 48. His ships went on to sink another nine U-boats, bringing his flotillas' total up to twenty-nine, before the U-boat fleet finally surrendered.  Fifteen of which were sunk by Walker's own ship, HMS Starling.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49524901740817,"sku":"GOR004850874","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49854116921617,"sku":"GOR002082630","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50936548196625,"sku":"GOR003171064","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53262448361745,"sku":"GOR010805808","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1844154394.jpg?v=1751280803","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/fighting-captain-book-alan-burn-9781844154395","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}