| Entry Text: | POOL, Richard. Course for Disaster: From Scapa Flow to the River Kwai. x, 196p., illus. London: Cooper, 1987. ISBN: 0850526000.
Pool joined the RN in 1937. In 1939 he was on Revenge covering North Atlantic convoys. As an Acting Sublieutenant he was at Dunkirk and gives a full description of this. He next joined Repulse, in which he was sunk. He stayed in Malaya until its loss, escaping from Singapore in a small boat, only to be captured by the Japanese after being marooned on a small island for four months. |
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