June 7, 2002
'Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy, 1900-1945'
No sea legs needed for Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy, 1900-1945 (Harvard University Press). There is much to lure even the novice in naval history.
The voices for one. They spill from diaries, letters, memoirs, questionnaires, and an archive of taped interviews in London's Imperial War Museum. Christopher McKee uses each to bring the "lower deck" alive. The seamen talk of everything, from what they ate and wore and gambled to the pleasures of shore leave, the panic
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