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Item Details
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THE MARTINGALE CHRONICLES
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| Volume: |
Pt. 1 |
| By: |
John Winstone, John Winstone (Illus), Robert Lloyd |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£10.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0954318323 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780954318321 |
| Publisher: |
THE LITC PRESS LLP |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2009 |
| Pages: |
265 |
| Synopsis: |
Based on historical facts this is the story about the life and loves of a young man in the years before and during WW2. James Alexander Young, known as Jay to his family and friends, is from a typical lower middle class English family but unlike most other boys, he has a mother who is half Japanese and it is she who teaches him to disregard race and colour. From early childhood he has a burning ambition to go to sea and with his family making financial sacrifices his dreams start to come true when he is enrolled as a cadet at a Naval College. There he is taught seamanship, navigation and all the other subjects needed to transform reasonably intelligent young men into junior officers. At college he makes many new friends including cadets from Japan and Germany and he discovers that the foreign young men are not so very different from him and his British friends. When war does arrive, he is distressed to find that he is obliged to regard these former friends as enemies and that it is his duty to try and destroy them if he can.Because he can speak Japanese fluently (learned as a young child at the knee of his grandmother) he is recruited by the Navy in the late 1930s to gather intelligence when visiting the Far East and as information is gleaned and assessed, he begins to seriously suspect that a conflict in the Pacific is being deliberately created. During visits to Japan he meets and falls in love with Noriko a beautiful young woman and in mid 1939 they marry. War in Europe finds him serving at sea and facing the real dangers from German U-boats when sailing with North Atlantic convoys and from torpedo aircraft when visiting Russia and he sees first hand the death and terrible destruction caused by these weapons of war. Finally he sails to warmer climes and becomes 1st Lieutenant of a large motor yacht which has been impressed by the Navy to patrol around the coast of Ceylon. They know that the Japanese with their aircraft carriers are nearby and prepare themselves for the inevitable conflict. |
| Illustrations: |
18 sketches |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
The LITC Press LLP |
| Prizes: |
Shortlisted for Mountbatten Maritime Prize 2011. |
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Non-returnable |
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