- Published: 22 June 2012
- ISBN: 9780141046327
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 592
- RRP: $32.99
Citizen Sailors
- Published: 22 June 2012
- ISBN: 9780141046327
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 592
- RRP: $32.99
Marvellous...a fine addition to the literature on the Second World War
Sunday Telegraph
Prysor does for the sailors of the Royal Navy what Patrick Bishop did for the RAF in Fighter Boys...He reminds us of their extraordinary contribution to our survival.
Daily Express
A moving and evocative story of the war at sea
Professor N.A.M. Rodger, author of 'The Command of the Ocean'
This impressive human history of the Royal Navy begins the long overdue process of putting it back at the heart of the war effort
Book of the Week, Independent
Full of terrific stories
Sunday Times
An absorbing read...a fine memorial
Literary Review
Excellent. Captures the soul of the men who were there...their humanity and, occassionally, inhumanity
Navy News
Skillfully weaves together a coherent 'people's history of the sailors' war'...Fresh and compelling
Times Literary Supplement
Breathtaking skill...freshness and force...Prysor makes the Navy of the Second World War intensely personal, vivid and vital
Military Times
Reads extremely well, with a gripping narrative that explains the unfolding of the war whilst weaving in moving and vivid personal accounts...This is a book that manages to fuse the strategic with the human and the social with consummate skill, and in so doing it delivers a multifaceted understanding of the war at sea as well as a poignant reminder of the way in which society has lost its 'sea vision'
Nautilus International Telegraph