| Entry Text: | PIKE, Richard. Seven Seas, Nine Lives: A Royal Navy Officer's Story of Valour. ix, 198p., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2006. ISBN: 1844153533.
The dust-jacket describes this as a biography of Captain A.W. F. Sutton; the title page lists him as the author, while the copyright statement gives this honour to Richard Pike. Despite this confusion of authorship the book is a focussed account of three episodes as seen by Sutton: the Invergordon Mutiny; Mediterranean Service in a destroyer and the Spanish Civil War; and, finally, after a transfer to the Fleet Air Arm, the attack on Taranto. The rest of his career is thinly filled in between these three major reminiscences |
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