Ian Johnston (2) (1948–)

So long as you keep in mind that that this book was mostly a final souvenir for the folks who kept the memory of the ship alive in its crew association, the more likely you'll be satisfied with it. There is one really good memoir of service in "Millie," as the ship was nicknamed, and that was by one Harry Staff. He was assigned to the battleship as she was leaving the dockyard in 1943, after repairs for the damage she took West of Suez at the hands of a Japanese mini-sub. Staff had a keen memory, or kept a really good surreptitious diary! What I really would have liked to have seen were memoirs of wartime service before that damage, but if they're not available that's the way it goes.… (mehr)