We Joined the Navy by John Winton (HQ241)

Published 1959: Hardcover / very Good Condition

Original blue cloth with gilt block titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 255 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on the dust jacket consistent with age. (HQ241)

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John Winton (3 May 1931–27 April 2001) was an English author and obituarist, following a career in the Royal Navy in which he rose to Lieutenant-Commander. He was born in London and served in the Korean War and during the Suez Crisis. Whilst still in the Navy, he wrote the comic novel We Joined the Navy, featuring the character of ‘The Artful Bodger’. Several other novels and a number of non-fiction works on naval subjects followed, including a biography of Admiral John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe. John also served for fourteen years as an obituarist for The Daily Telegraph. [Google books]