Signalman Jones (eBook)

Geoffrey Holder Jones, Tim Parker (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
140 Seiten
Sheridan House (Verlag)
978-1-4617-1804-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The riveting true account of an English naval signalman’s experiences during World War II, including his insider’s perspective on how squadrons of Allied ships defeated the German U-boat blockade of the American coast.

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In 1939, young English naval signalman Geoffrey Holder-Jones began his career by surviving a German mine attack in the Thames estuary. World War II took him as naval officer to Iceland, the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, and the United States. Commissioned as a naval officer and given command of his own ship, Jones then patrolled the waters off Canada and Newfoundland before returning to Britain in 1944. This true story, written on the basis of personal conversations and a scrapbook entrusted to the author 60 years after the war, illuminates one of the great achievements of the war the beating of the German U-boat blockade of the American coast by squadrons of Allied ships that were little more than motley collections of armed trawlers and whalers. With a sense of humor and decency that sustained him through the ordeals of convoy duty in the Arctic Ocean, Signalman Jones has related his story to Tim Parker with vivid observations and an eye for the absurd.

Inhalt

Foreword by Rear Admiral John LippiettPrefaceA message from Signalman JonesChapter 1: Early Years – Liverpool and the Great DepressionChapter 2: At last I go to sea – and on a battle cruiserChapter 3: WarChapter 4: I go back to school and meet GladysChapter 5: Wastwater – the grim reality of war in the North AtlanticChapter 6: Iceland, 1941Chapter 7: Spitsbergen, summer 1941Chapter 8: We lose our captain but find a submarineChapter 9: Aberdeen, then back to the frozen northChapter 10: Churchill and Roosevelt order Wastwater to AmericaChapter 11: New York, New YorkChapter 12: The CaribbeanChapter 13: CanadaChapter 14: BlightyChapter 15: My last commandChapter 16: Thirty-nine stepsTim Parker

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.11.2010
• Zusatzinfo: 59 Illustrations including: - 4 Black & White Illustrations; - 55 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Deutschland
• ISBN-10: 1-4617-1804-X / 146171804X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4617-1804-8 / 9781461718048