Re:Quiet naval hero who rescued Enigma machine dies aged 95
by arethuza on Thursday January 07, 2016 @12:11PM
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There are some splendid UK films about the Battle of the Atlantic - my favourite being The Cruel Sea.
NB The author of the novel on which the The Cruel Sea is based, Nicholas Monsarrat, wrote a moving account of his own service - Three Corvettes - which is one of the few books that has reduced me to tears. Funnily enough I happened to read the book while flying over the North Atlantic...
Re:Quiet naval hero who rescued Enigma machine dies aged 95
by porker on Thursday January 07, 2016 @02:54PM
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> NB The author of the novel on which the The Cruel Sea is based, Nicholas Monsarrat, wrote a moving account of his own service - Three Corvettes - which is one of the few books that has reduced me to tears. Funnily enough I happened to read the book while flying over the North Atlantic...
Alistair MacLean's HMS Ulysses is another of those. I read it as a teenager and a couple of scenes are as sharp in my mind as the day I read it.
Re:Quiet naval hero who rescued Enigma machine dies aged 95
by tcopeland on Thursday January 07, 2016 @05:39PM
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That is a fantastic book indeed. It's on the Combat Studies Institute reading list, and rightly so.
Re:Quiet naval hero who rescued Enigma machine dies aged 95
by jvehent on Thursday January 07, 2016 @02:00PM
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The serie Foyle's War has excellent details about the impact of the war on normal citizens of southeast UK. I grew up in Normandie, on the other side of the channel, and heard the same stories from my grand-parents.
Re:Quiet naval hero who rescued Enigma machine dies aged 95
by steveplace on Thursday January 07, 2016 @12:19PM
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That narrative worked 50 years ago but not anymore.
Of course it doesn't help that the other nations don't actively promote their forces in the same manner the Americans do - perhaps good, perhaps bad.