Entry Text: | CLARK, Victor. Triumph and Disaster: The Autobiography of a Naval Officer. 128p., illus. Tunbridge Wells: Parapress, 1994. ISBN: 1898594082.
A disappointing and somewhat self-indulgent book, mainly concerned with postwar sailing adventures. He began the war as First Lieutenant of Punjabi and fought at Narvik. After a brief spell in command of Anthony, he moved to Repulse in which he was sunk. Captured by the Japanese in the aftermath of the fall of Singapore he spent the rest of the war as a POW. |
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