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The Steep Atlantick Stream: A Memoir of Convoys and Corvettes

The Steep Atlantick Stream: A Memoir of Convoys and Corvettes - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert Harling, John Worsley (Illustrator), Derek Law (Introduction by)Publish date:2023-10-01Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:Lyons PressISBN-13:9781493076574ISBN-10:1493076574UPC:9781493076574Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, Maritime History & Piracy, Aviation & NauticalBook Topic:World War IISize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCCJB8656T

First published in 1946, this atmospheric, humorous, yet in the end deeply sad memoir of the author's experiences during the Battle of the Atlantic offers one of the most original accounts of the war at sea in the 'cockleshell corvettes' which faced down the threat of the U-boat menace.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Lyons PressISBN-13:9781493076574ISBN-10:1493076574UPC:9781493076574Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, Maritime History & Piracy, Aviation & NauticalBook Topic:World War IISize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCCJB8656T
Robert Harling was a key figure in twentieth-century graphic design, editor before the war of Typography and later House & Garden, which he edited between 1957 until his retirement in 1993, and typographic advisor to the Sunday Times for almost forty years. At the start of the war, and being a keen sailor, Harling joined the RNVR and took part in the Dunkirk evacuation, before serving on Atlantic convoy duty. His close friend Ian Fleming later recruited him to 30AU, known as 'Fleming's Commandos, ' where he spent the rest of the war operating in naval intelligence and on the front line. He is the author of eighteen books, including half a dozen novels, books on typography, architecture and artists such as Eric Ravilious and Eric Gill, and a memoir of his friendship with Ian Fleming. He died in 2008.
Publisher: Lyons Press

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