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Lädt ... A Tall Ship: On Other Naval Occasions (1915)von Bartimeus
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This little book, the size of a paperback (191 pages but the size of the font will please older readers), was ideal bedtime reading, one short story a night. Most are sketches of an aspect of naval life of the time, a year or two into the Great War such that espionage, battle, injuries and death, and love too, are sometimes in the foreground, sometimes the background, but I really enjoyed this book. Re-call from leave, captain's rounds, shore leave, desertion, a children's party, a ship's party (sod's opera) and wardroom entertaining for a 'chummy ship' are all covered, perhaps somewhat sentimentally, but nonetheless accurately. Each shows how much of the Navy I knew, some fifty and more years on, was much the same and how much (or little, sometimes) society, the people, had changed. Easy reading but pleasing too. Wardroom slang of the time is common throughout the book - Indiarubber Man was the officer responsible for physical training (his frame supposedly as flexible as an india rubber), Torps was the torpedo officer and the AP is the Assistant Paymaster (deputy supply officer or captain's secretary in my Navy) and the branch of the author. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Excerpt: ...her good and cheers her. She often speaks of you." Nosey returned to Portsmouth and his ship. His mess-the mess-deck itself-was agog with rumours. Had he heard the "buzz"? Nosey had not. "I bin to London to see a fren," he explained. Then they told him. The battle-cruiser to which he belonged had been ordered to join the Mediterranean Fleet. That was Monday; they were to sail for Malta on Thursday. And Janie was dying in the Middlesex Hospital. The next visiting day found him at Janies bedside. But, instead of his spick-and-span serge suit of "Number Ones" and carefully ironed blue collar, Nosey wore a rusty suit of "civvies" (civilian clothes). Instead of being clean-shaven, an inconsiderable moustache was feeling its way through his upper lip. "Wheres your sailor clothes?" asked Janie weakly. Nosey looked round to reassure himself that they were not overheard. "I done a bunk " he whispered. Janie gazed at him with dismayed eyes. "Not-not deserted?" Nosey nodded. "Dont you take on, Janie. S only sos I can stay near you." He pressed her dry hand. "I got a barrer-whelks an periwinkles. Ive saved a bit o money. An now I can stay near you an come ere visiting days." Janie was too weak to argue or expostulate. It may have been that she was conscious of a certain amount of pride in Noseys voluntary outlawry for her sake; and she was glad enough to have someone to sit with her on visiting days and tell her about the outside world she was never to see again. She even went back in spirit to the proud days when they walked out together. . . . It brought balm to the cough-racked nights and the weary passage of the days. Then the streets echoed with the cries of paper-boys. The nurses whispered together excitedly in their leisure moments; the doctors seemed to acquire an added briskness. Once or twice she heard the measured tramp of feet in the streets below, as a regiment was moved from one quarters to another. England was at war with... Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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