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Sober Men and True
Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy, 1900-1945
by Christopher McKee
ISBN: 0674007360
ISBN-13: 9780674007369
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] rich and valuable account of the way sailors lived and worked and the kind of people they were." -- Ian Jack
-- London Review of Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published date: 2002
Size: 6.75 x 9.75 inches
Weight: 1.35 pounds
Pages: 312
Publisher's Notes
The image of the naval sailor is that of an enigmatic but compelling figure, a globe-trotting adventurer, swaggering and irresponsible in port but swift to flex the national muscle at sea and beyond. Appealing as this popular image may be, scant effort has been expended to reveal the truth behind the stereotype.
Thanks to Christopher McKee's groundbreaking work, it is now possible to hear from sailors themselves--in this case, those who served in Great Britain's Royal Navy during the first half of the twentieth century. McKee has scoured sailors' unpublished diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral interviews to uncover the lives and secret thoughts of British men of the lower deck. From working-class childhoods teetering on the edge of poverty to the hardships of finding civilian employment after leaving the navy; from sexual initiation in the brothels of Oran and Alexandria to the terror of battle, the former sailors speak with candor about all aspects of naval life: the harsh discipline and deep comradeship, the shipboard homoeroticism, the pleasures and temptations of world travel, and the responsibilities of marriage and family.
McKee has shaped the first authentic model of the naval enlisted experience, an account not crafted by officers or civilian reformers but deftly told in the sailors' own voices. The result is a poignant and complex portrait of lower-deck lives.
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Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy, 1900-1945
McKee, Christopher
Harvard University Press. Hardcover. 0674007360 Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Ex-library with usual distinguishments (stamps, sticker on spine, but no card insert). . 2002-05-30. ( more information) Offered by The Book Place (United States)
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Sober Men and True
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. First printing. HB.. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 285 p. A groundbreaking study of the lives of British sailors. McKee scoured sailors' unpublished diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral interviews to uncover the lives of the men of the lower deck. ( more information) Offered by The Bound Page (United States)
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