Sky-Blue Sailor |
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| Author:
| Hawkins, Bill |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4120-2392-4 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2004 |
| Publisher: | Trafford Publishing
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.59 |
Book Description:
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Sky-Blue Sailor is a fictional story of a young, newly-wed merchant seaman who is called up in the 1950s for two years' compulsory service in H.M.'s Forces.
The reader is taken through the protagonist's heartbreak of separation from his new bride and the harsh, humiliating basic training where he encounters the perverse military practice of asking the conscripted man his career preference only to give him the exact opposite.
After initial training, his time away and his...
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Sky-Blue Sailor is a fictional story of a young, newly-wed merchant seaman who is called up in the 1950s for two years' compulsory service in H.M.'s Forces.
The reader is taken through the protagonist's heartbreak of separation from his new bride and the harsh, humiliating basic training where he encounters the perverse military practice of asking the conscripted man his career preference only to give him the exact opposite.
After initial training, his time away and his travels around the coast place a heavy strain on his marriage, and both he and his lonely wife (who has her own problems) succumb to temptation.