Entry Text: | LINSKEY, Bill. No Longer Required: My War in the Merchant Marine. 233, [7]p., illus. London: Pisces, 1999. ISBN: 0953728501.
The bitter memoirs of a young Irish Geordie who went to sea as a stoker in 1938 and had a hard war in the Atlantic and Arctic, including PQ18 and two sinkings. In 1943 he was put ashore as a severely disturbed hard case. |
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