Fourth Service: Merchantmen at War 1939-45

By John Slader

Here at last is the true story of the merchant fleet during World War II, the non-fighting service in which 32,000 men died yet whose essential role has never been fully appreciated. The author,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1899694455
• ISBN13: 9781899694457
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Ibooks
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Merchant Seamen not forgotten

This book is one of the few around to document the dangerous task of the merchant seamen of the Allied Forces during World War II. It gives you a true perspective on their lives and what they were made to endure. And still they have not been fully recognized as veterans of war in most countries, nor given full post war benefits. The war could not have been won without them.