| Entry Text: | LAMB, Charles. War in a Stringbag. [12], 340p., illus., index. London: Cassell, 1977; New York: Norton, 1978. ISBN: 030429778X.
The author was sunk in Courageous, laid mines and hunted U boats over Northern European waters, harried E-boats off Dunkirk, flew from Illustrious in the Mediterranean including the attack on Taranto, flew antishipping strikes from Greece and Malta, crash-landed in North Africa, and was imprisoned by Vichy. After release and recuperation he joined Implacable only to suffer a further accident on her deck in the Pacific. Most enjoyably told. US Title is To War in a Stringbag. Reissued by Cooper in 1988. |
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