Plain Yarns from the Fleet
By: Charles Owen ; Foreword by Admiral Sir Charles Madden
Contributors: Madden, Admiral Sir Charles
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd; [distributor] The History Press Ltd
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Stroud
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780750919852
Subjects: Royal Navy; Great Britain. Royal Navy; Great Britain
Description: The author explores the spirit of the Royal Navy in its 20th-century heyday, from 1900 and on through two momentous world wars to 1945. With anecdotes, eyewitness accounts, reminiscences, archive material and published works, he portrays life in the Navy in this challenging era.
Notes: General (US: Trade).

English.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: rulers of the waves. Part 1 Fisher's Navy, 1900-31: stormy days, doldrums. Part 2 Between the wars, 1918-39: views from the nursery; title: Med Fleet; title: bases and playgrounds. Part 3 Against the odds, 1931-45: uneasy peace; title: battle royal; title: turning points; title: towards victory. Epilogue: the ship comes first.