Captain Alan William Frank Sutton's enthralling biography starts when, as a young midshipman he was in command of a small rowing cutter returning a potentially mutinous crew to the battle-cruiser HMS Repulse in which he served. Amazingly it ends in the open cockpit of a Fairy Swordfish torpedo bomber during the legendry night attack which destroyed the Italian fleet at Taranto. This biography has been written with the full cooperation of Captain Sutton who has given the author every detail of his lengthy naval ship and airborne career during World War II.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books LTD
ISBN-13
9781844153534
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89698213
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2005
Subject
Government, History
Number of Pages
2556 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Seven Seas, Nine Lives
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biographies & True Stories
Author
Richard Pike
Format
Hardcover
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Title_Author
Richard Pike
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