Derek Law's Bibliography

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Entry Text: FOSS, Denis, with ENTWISTLE, Basil. Shoot a Line: A Merchant Mariner's War. 251p. Yeovil: Linden Hall, 1992. ISBN: 0948747110.

Foss rejoined the Merchant Navy in 1939. He was torpedoed twice in one night in 1940, served in Malta convoys, Atlantic convoys and the Far East, serving finally with the Fleet Train in the Pacific. A member of Moral Rearmament he spent much of the war apparently resolving the problems of others from Prime Ministers to donkeymen.