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Cargando... Scrimgeour's Small Scribbling Diary, 1914-1916: The Truly Astonishing Wartime Diary and Letters of an Edwardian Gentleman, Naval Officer, Boy and Sonpor Alexander Scrimgeour
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Cropped dust jacket, as issued; cropped life, cut short when the Invincible blew up on May 31st 1916. There were 1,031 men on board and only 6 survived. The author of this entertaining diary was not one of them. Scrimgeour used three styles in his diary: one for the family, especially in the letters to his mother; one to describe the naval activities he undertook so professionally and which in many respects are the least interesting; and a third to describe his social life when on leave or in port. Sadness shrouds everything as the reader knows that he is to die so yoiung. For me, the saddest strand was his love affair with Joko, the flirtatious young female who causes him so much angst. What happened to Joko? What did she say in her letters? He knew the relationship was doomed from the start. Scrimgeour's work hard, play hard mentality raises many a smile, for instance through references such as Betty with her 'come-into-the office-and-shut-the door-lips'. ( ) Interesting set of diaries and letters from a midshipman who served in the navy before and during the Great War, and died at the Battle of Jutland. Gives a useful perspective from the middle ranks of what the war was really like, and the attitudes of those in the navy. Especially interesting in relation to the struggle to control commerce and merchant shipping. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Rape, Ravage and Rant are the German watchwords in this war. Right, Revenge & Retrenchment shall be ours.' Alexander Scrimgeour, 17th September 1914. When nineteen year old Alexander Scrimgeour lost his life at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, he had already left a legacy complete diaries spanning the previous six years, chronicling first his life as the son of a wealthy stock broker, then his time as a young sea cadet and finally as a Sub-Lieutenant in His Majesty s Navy. Like all good midshipmen were required to do, Scrimgeour took pride in writing his journals and was careful to recount every event with marked sincerity. Appalled by some of the actions of the British Admiralty and the Germans alike, Scrimgeour risked court-martial to record some of the more notorious incidents during World War I, and what really happened. His candid way of writing coupled with an articulate and imaginative turn of phrase has left us with first-hand evidence shedding light on some extraordinary moments of the Great War. Among his revelations, Scrimgeour reveals the real reason behind the sinking of the HMS Hawke, the events preceding the capture of the infamous Baron Von Wedel head of the German Spy Bureau and Privy Councilor to the Kaiser - and what he learnt from dining with his Naval Commanders as the ship s interpreter. A great deal of attention is devoted to his personal life, including his numerous love affairs and his anguish at the loss of close friends killed during the war. Up until now, the few existing war diaries have generally been written by those who fought in the trenches. With thousands of British sailors losing their lives at sea during World War I, it is important to draw on all remaining first hand evidence so that we remember, and never forget the heroic actions of our ancestors during one of our country s darkest episodes through the diaries of Alexander Scrimgeour, we can do just that. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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