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ISBN: 9781921274121
Authors: David Jones & Peter Nunan
Size: 250mm x 179mm; 237 pages
Format: Paperback
Price: $35.95
There were many heroes who helped save the world from Nazi tyranny
In various parts of this book there are quotations from Harold Chesterman’s diaries, logs, and letters. Here is one – he and his crew on the corvette HMS Snowflake had just endured an eight-day battle with enemy ships in the North Atlantic: "Exhausted, battered and bruised, but happy we handed over the convoy and entered St Johns on 9th May. It had been a long, hard fight. The action had been fought by British ships in the American sector but in an area under Canadian control. London, Washington and Ottawa all wanted to claim the victory and we were harried for detail from all sides whilst trying to make good defects, fuel, provision, re-arm, and get some rest. There was hardly time to celebrate – but we did."
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