SEVEN SEAS, NINE LIVES
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SEVEN SEAS, NINE LIVES (ebook)

RICHARD PIKE

$119.00
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PEN & SWORD MARITIME (ORIM)
ISBN:
9781783409709
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Epublication content package
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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.

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