A Home on the Rolling Main: A Naval Memoir 1940-1946

by A.G.F. Ditcham

From first joining the Royal Navy in 1940 until the end of the campaign against Japan, Tony Ditcham was in the front line of the naval war. After brief service in the battlecruiser Renown off Norway and against the Italians, he went into destroyers and saw action in most European theatres - against S-boats and aircraft in 'bomb alley' off Britain's East Coast, on Arctic convoys to Russia, and eventually in a flotilla screening the Home Fleet. During...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848321759
• ISBN13: 9781848321755
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"