..and Home There's No Returning: Letters of Lieutenant John Martindale Iago RNVR from HMS "Hood", 1939-41 - Softcover

Iago, John Martindale

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0907322875 ISBN 13: 9780907322870

Publisher: Arcturus Press, 2004

Synopsis

The title is a quotation from the poet A.E. Housman (Last Poems XXV). The fate of the battle-cruiser HMS Hood, sunk by the German pocket-battleship Bismarck on 24th May 1941 with the loss of all but three members of the entire ship's company is one of the most well-remembered naval tragedies of the Second World War. The present author makes no apology for now adding to the considerable literature on that traumatic event which has appeared over the last 63 years, for the writer of the letters which she has now edited and provided with a connecting narrative was her brother, an electrical engineer who served on Hood for virtually all of its wartime career and who perished with its crew on that fatal day. As far as is known, no other letters from crew members of Hood have been published, if, indeed, any have survived; and these therefore offer a unique insight into the thoughts and opinions of a "Wavy Navy" officer who only joined the Royal Navy two days before the outbreak of war.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcturus Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0907322875
• ISBN 13: 9780907322870
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Kenchington Bee