The Stick and The Stars, William King - 1958 - Acceptable Condition

Langue : anglais

Edité par Hutchinson & Co, 1958

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Hard-cover book. Deals mostly with the author's experiences during WW2 as a submarine commander in the Royal Navy. He served in the North Sea and later around the Dutch East Indies"Little did I dream how austere the training at Dartmouth would be. In the morning we were taught to leap from our beds at a bugle note, scamper to the wash-room for a cold shower and race down stone corridors to the dining hall. We washed, brushed teeth, ate, dressed and prayed to the stopwatch. Morning and evening was spent huddled over desks, studying if not learning. The old tradition of inculcating immediate response by beatings remained. For many years no seaman had been flogged, but for embryo officers aged thirteen to eighteen this procedure was incessantly used as incentive as well as deterrent. The avoidance of flogging became the motive power of one’s life. But it was impossible to avoid the inevitable cane, for such sins of omission as leaving a button undone, or folding socks the wrong way, resulted in one’s name in the evening roll-call which drew shivering boys out of the dormitory to the ministrations of a grinning cadet-captain. The batch of boys with whom I entered happened to lack athletic talent. Then it was that my ability to run came in really useful, and I was started off on the ten-mile cross-country runs which were to be such a plague for the rest of my service."Ex military library copy so expect lighter than usual wear than usual library copies. No Dust jacket. Binder in acceptable to good condition. Boards robust, edges clean and sharp, hinge action sound. Minor shelf wear and marking. Quick flick through if text shows little in the way of marking and annotations other than initial library stamps. Overall acceptable condition. 1958 edition.Quick dispatch.Many thanks for supporting independents. …

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
The Stick and The Stars, William King - 1958 - Acceptable Condition
Auteur
King, William
Éditeur
Hutchinson & Co
Année de publication
1958
État de l'article
Fair
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
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