Richard Woodman is well-known for his Nathaniel Drinkwater series of historical naval novels, a dozen other sea-stories, histories of the development of ships and works on sea-power during the Napoleonic Wars. He has also produced two widely acclaimed studies of convoys operations during the Second World War, Malta Convoys and Arctic Convoys.
'Combines harrowing, sometimes humorous eyewitness accounts with a strategic evaluation of the war at sea ... A superbly researched memorial' -- Christopher Lee, Literary Review 'This is military history for grownups, unsparing and unedifying, but gripping from first to last' -- Michael Kerrigan, Scotsman 'Will surely serve as a semi-official wartime history of our merchant marine' -- John Crossland, Sunday Times 'Richard Woodman understands the sea and seamen and tells the story without artificial colouring' -- Tom Pocock, Spectator 'The gripping story of the merchant seamen and their battle for safe passage of convoys across the Atlantic' -- History Today 'The finest work to date on the cruelly ill-used and underrated merchant navy in the Second World War' -- New Statesman 'This superbly-crafted history is a fitting testament to their valour' -- Focus 'Magisterial' -- Daily Express 'A big book, replete with scholarship and evidence of vast research ! an account which so badly needed to be written' -- Michael Grey, Lloyds List 'A moving tribute to the sailors who fought for survival' -- The Sunday Times 20050731
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