| Entry Text: | HAMPSON, Norman. Not Really What You'd Call a War. 132p., illus. Latheronwheel: Whittles, 2001. ISBN: 1870325389.
The autobiography of a quiet war. He volunteered in 1941 from university as a CW rating and did his three months sea time on Carnation on the Liverpool-Gibraltar route. His service on an anonymised but easily identified Easton, which he heartily disliked was in the Mediterranean before he transferred as liaison officer to the French corvette La Moqueuse in 1943. Half of the book concerns his quiet but happy service on her in the Levant and later the South of France. An excellent memoir. |
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