| Entry Text: | MELLY, George. Rum Bum and Concertina. iii, 183p. London: Wei-denfeld & Nicolson, 1977. ISBN: 0297773410. A riotously funny account of Melly’s anarchic naval career as an ordinary seaman. From his conscription in 1944 he spent the next four years as a misfit, homosexual, jazz enthusiast, dilettante, surrealist, and journalist. A very different view of shore training establishments and the base ship Argus at the end of the war. |
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