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_aHell or high water / _cedited by Neill Atkinson. |
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_aAuckland [N.Z.] : _bHarperCollins, _c2009. |
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_a272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c23 cm |
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500 | _aCover subtitle: New Zealand merchant seafarers remember the war. | ||
500 | _a"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. | ||
500 | _aPrevious ed.: 2005. | ||
500 | _aIncludes index. | ||
505 | 0 | _aIntroduction : 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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