A Passage to Sword Beach WWII Minesweeping in the Royal Navy by Brendan Maher

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Seller: rsabooksellersoz ✉️ (6,891) 100%, Location: Stoneville, WA, AU, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 304787651565 A Passage to Sword Beach WWII Minesweeping in the Royal Navy by Brendan Maher. As shown title. We are Australia based and ship immediately. Thank you for shopping with RSABooksellers, an Australia owned company. We take pride in every order and appreciate your confidence in us. A first-hand account of minesweeping in the Royal Navy during WWII, drawing on the author's diaries and the formal journal he kept as a junior officer to describe everyday life in small and large minesweepers and the preparations for D-Day, as well as the author's hospitalization and leave in wartime Britain. Includes an appendix on ranks and uniforms of the Royal Navy during WWII, and a list of Allied ships mentioned in the book. One reviewer noted the following: "I found myself totally absorbed, transported to 1944, as I read this book! 'Sword Beach' provides an engaging, balanced, vivid, touching and sometimes humoristic account of Maher's personal experiences as a young man in the Royal Naval Reserves leading up to the Normandy invasion (D-Day) and thereafter. Maher was assigned to minesweeping, and kept detailed diary entries of the training preparations and life in wartime Britain. (Minesweeping was perhaps one of the most dangerous and critical tasks of the invasion, but one which recieves less "glory" in most of the WW2 literature.) A wonderful read for anyone with a sense of adventure and an interest in history. An important read, especially for younger generations (like mine), to understand and appreciate the great personal sacrifices endured by people like Maher, to ensure our own freedom. These ordinary-turned-brave people were (and are) our grandparents, parents, siblings, friends and neigbors (and they could be us)."
  • Condition: Good
  • Condition: Clean and tight with name written inside
  • Subject Area: Minesweeping
  • ISBN: 9781557505729
  • Publication Year: 1996
  • Type: Textbook
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Publication Name: A Passage to Sword Beach: Minesweeping in the Royal Navy
  • Item Height: 241mm
  • Author: Brendan A. Maher
  • Publisher: Naval Institute Press
  • Item Width: 165mm
  • Subject: Government, History
  • Item Weight: 522g
  • Number of Pages: 246 Pages

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