SHADOWS SHIPS & MISTLETOE

By K M MURRAY

This is a story that moves through the love, loss and laughter of three generations of a Greenock family during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It progresses to relate the story of one member of that family who, together with a group of disparate young men, was apprenticed in the Scottish ship building industry on Clydeside during the 1940s. The story continues with their adventures on the seas around China and the Far East.Although WW2 had ended, conscription had not. Men of eighteen and over were expected to complete two years National Service in the Armed Services This could be postponed for the period of an apprenticeship after which each man was expected to fulfil his obligation to his country.Many young men preferred to join the merchant navy as engineering officers which was considered to be an acceptable alternative to armed military service.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 109060310X
• ISBN13: 9781090603104
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"