Hero of the UpholderPeriscope Publishing Ltd., 2004 - Počet stran: 191 This volume is Allaway's international biography of Britain's greatest ever submarine captain. |
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Foreword | 6 |
Authors Preface and Acknowledgements | 7 |
A fitting and a most humbling occasion | 11 |
Out of Argentina | 15 |
Wanklyn Minimus | 19 |
Very much his own person | 24 |
A mode of warfare which those who command the sea do not want | 29 |
Francos lot were the worst | 41 |
One cigarette all roundand one only | 110 |
I could literally hear my knees knocking | 113 |
All the dogs in Sicily were barking | 119 |
The most skilful attack ever made | 125 |
A sight granted to few submariners | 131 |
VCbut mother in tears | 134 |
A pretty close call | 139 |
Second Uboatthe Amiraglio St Bon | 142 |
Very close to him in his problems | 43 |
Our chances werent going to be very good | 52 |
Little chance of shooting up a Hun | 56 |
An almost intuitive perception | 66 |
The Illustrious blitz | 76 |
By guess and by God | 79 |
Obviously a very disappointed man | 83 |
Plain butchery | 90 |
The spell is broken | 93 |
The oldest jacket imaginable | 97 |
The sinking of the Conte Rosso | 103 |
A foul lake of wrecks | 146 |
Report farm casualties | 151 |
No mean achievement | 155 |
Count the days they are not so many | 159 |
A giant among us | 163 |
the crew of HMS Upholder | 175 |
analysis of David Wanklyns handwriting | 176 |
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Source References | 179 |
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