- Hardcover: 372 pages
- Publisher: Melrose Books (16 Dec 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 190522639X
- ISBN-13: 978-1905226399
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.4 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 851,334 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Twenty-two Hundred Days to Pulo We: My Education in the Navy" is one of the best examples of a personal naval memoir to emerge in recent years. The author joins the Navy as an inexperienced fifteen-year-old boy and leaves over seven years later, having literally grown up in the Royal Navy during WWII. He describes his experiences in warm, familiar language, which emphasises the human aspect of war, and which immerses the reader in the culture of life at sea aboard the cruiser HMS Nigeria. Edwards affectionately describes the shipmates that form his cast of characters and shares the sense of loss for those who eventually gave their lives in the service of their country. He brilliantly conveys the camaraderie, the humour, the hardship and the strange Navy rituals and traditions encountered by the Royal Navy sailors in those difficult years.
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Jack Edwards grew up in pre-war Britain and joined the Royal Navy at the age of fifteen. After almost a year at a naval training facility, he served aboard the new cruiser HMS Nigeria for the entirety of World War II, over a third of that time in the Arctic, then on Pedestal (and to the US for man and ship to be repaired), then amazingly back on the same ship for another third of the war in the Far East. Jack's was truly a 'joined up war'. He and his remarkable colleagues were part of the Nigeria's seven hundred crew. This story particularly focuses on all the boy seamen and their experiences as part of the crew and the actions they were involved in.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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An account of an RN boy entrant's WW2 experiences.,
By Mr D Philpott (Newcastle on Clun, Shropshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Twenty-two Hundred Days to Pulo We: My Education in the Navy (Hardcover)
This is a excellent book, detailing the life in the Royal Navy throughout WW2 by a very young boy entrant.Jack Edwards grew up in the RN during WW2, and his experiences make very compelling reading. I found the details of the Russian convoys that he served on were particularly interesting. I had read many comments about the hardships that the RN and Merchant Navies suffered on those journeys, but this was the first time I had read an account by a survivor of them. He describes them with a good deal of humour, but it could not have been much fun, when every day could be your last, and was, for a lot of the boy entrants who joined the Navy with him. This was a rapid growing up indeed. Looking back after sixty years to those different, difficult times, it amazes me how much we asked our young men and women to do for us, and how well they did it. Edwards narrates his war from the lower deck point of view, with no axes to grind, and no reputations to protect, and it's all the better for that. This book makes very good reading and is very highly recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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An ordinary person doing an extraordinary job!,
By Michael David Booker "Member of the Guild of ... (France and Egypt) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Twenty-two Hundred Days to Pulo We: My Education in the Navy (Hardcover)
Anyone who has an interest in the Royal Navy, HMS Nigeria and the Russian and Malta Convoys in particular will therefore find this particular volume especially helpful, as it recalls the wartime service of a naive young man who joined the Royal Navy as a boy seaman before hostilities broke out and served through to the very end of the war, when he left as a man with a combination of happy, sad , funny and some most unusual experiences behind him.
From a researchers point of view, the recruiting and training procedures in the navy at the time are both interesting and informative, however the recollections of the life he led, when he finally went to sea on HMS Nigeria give the reader a true insight into life aboard a Royal Navy cruiser at that time. Accurate descriptions of these fighting ships together with the horrific conditions suffered at sea and in the frozen Artic Circle, together with battle conditions when they were attacked by enemy aircraft, bigger ships with larger guns and submarines with torpedoes and sadly the death of his comrades are all included. There is an excellent amount of very well produced technical drawings of equipment used aboard ship and some good colour and black and white photographs too. Of course, many biographies have already been written by famous high ranking naval officers, however this is the biography of a very ordinary person, doing an extraordinary job. This book kept me engrossed for hours. In naval terms - "Bravo Zulu" (for landlubbers, this means well done!)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Twenty-two Hundred Days to Pulo We: My Education in the Navy (Hardcover)
Very interesting book detailing the historical exploits of one individual on HMS Nigeria. Especially fascinating to me as my father was serving on board this ship during the whole period covered and some of his stories are confirmed in this book. My father was actually in the same gun turret as the author they would probably have known each other and shared the same frightening experiences.
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