Entry Text: | McKEE, Christopher. Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900-1945. [vii], 285p., bibliog., illus., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P., 2003. ISBN: 0674007360.
The author has scoured archives and libraries for memoirs which he uses to provide a memorable analysis of lower deck attitudes and habits. Oral histories are used tellingly to make his points. |
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