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Hell or high water / edited by Neill Atkinson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland [N.Z.] : HarperCollins, 2009Description: 272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 186950786X
  • 9781869507862
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.548193 22
Contents:
Introduction : New Zealand merchant seafarers at war, 1939-45 / Neill Atkinson -- Further reading -- You knew you were the bull's-eye / Lionel Hodgson -- The old Aquitania / John Montgomery -- Caught by the Japanese / Bill Hall -- Five hundred ships / Pat O'Shea -- The Santa Marija convoy / John Gregson -- Four days of Hell / Les Watson -- It seemed like an eternity / Darcy Hoffman -- I don't like the look of tonight / Allan Wyllie -- Loch Ewe to Murmansk / Dan Bashall -- It was the most astounding thing / Dewi Browne -- We had to feed the troops / Cliff Turner -- I put my age up / Lou Barron -- A pierhead jump / Thor Larsen -- Up the Red Sea / Steve Carey -- Real true adventures / Jim Blundell.
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Cover subtitle: New Zealand merchant seafarers remember the war.

"Hell or high water includes stirring accounts of war at sea: the seamen who survived air and submarine attacks, some enduring days adrift in open lifeboats; an 18-year-old awarded the George Cross during the 1942 Pedestal convoy to relieve Malta; and others who spent years in Japanese prisons"--Back cover.

Previous ed.: 2005.

Includes index.

Introduction : New Zealand merchant seafarers at war, 1939-45 / Neill Atkinson -- Further reading -- You knew you were the bull's-eye / Lionel Hodgson -- The old Aquitania / John Montgomery -- Caught by the Japanese / Bill Hall -- Five hundred ships / Pat O'Shea -- The Santa Marija convoy / John Gregson -- Four days of Hell / Les Watson -- It seemed like an eternity / Darcy Hoffman -- I don't like the look of tonight / Allan Wyllie -- Loch Ewe to Murmansk / Dan Bashall -- It was the most astounding thing / Dewi Browne -- We had to feed the troops / Cliff Turner -- I put my age up / Lou Barron -- A pierhead jump / Thor Larsen -- Up the Red Sea / Steve Carey -- Real true adventures / Jim Blundell.

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