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Sea Warfare

Rudyard Kipling

Book Overview: 

Collection of naval short stories.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .A.M. the commander was waked by one of his men, who whispered to him: "They've got the chains on us, sir!" Whether it was pure nightmare, an hallucination of long wakefulness, something relaxing and releasing in that packed box of machinery, or the disgustful reality, the commander could not tell, but it had all the makings of panic in it. So the Lord and long training put it into his head to reply! "Have they? Well, we shan't be coming up till nine o'clock this morning. Well see about it then. Turn out that light, please."

He did not sleep, but the dreamer and the others did, and when morning came and he gave the order to rise, and she rose unhampered, and he saw the grey, smeared seas from above once again, he said it was a very refreshing sight.

Lastly, which is on all fours with the [43]gamble of the chase, a man was coming home rather bored after an uneventful trip. It was necessary for him to sit on the bottom for awhile, and there he played patie. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Comencé este libro con bastante curiosidad y poco entusiasmo, porque no me gusta nada la literatura de combate. Sin embargo pese a que los relatos caen en algún momento en el exceso (al fin y al cabo, estaban en guerra con Alemania) y en general su tono es orgullosamente inglés; en su conjunto son u

Got very good detail on the ships in the British Royal Navy during W.W.I.

Rudyard Kipling, acting as a sort of proto-embedded journalist, reported on aspects of the Royal Navy in the first World War that usually don't receive as much attention. In sections on the minesweepers, Merchant Marine, submariners, and the destroyers, he gave an illuminating summary of the importa