Mallalieu, J.P.W. Very Ordinary Seaman

A “below the decks” look at the life of sailors aboard a British destroyer (the fictitious MARSDEN) on North Atlantic duty. Written at the height of hostilities in a matter-of-fact, “unvarnished style of description” (according to The Times Literary Supplement of April 22, 1944) by a real life British seaman, the novel is included in this bibliography for its graphic Murmansk Run convoy climax.