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Hostilities Only: Training the Wartime Royal Navy  

ISBN: 0948065486  

RRP: £14.99

Author: Brian Lavery

Publisher: National Maritime Museum

Pub Date: March 2004

Just over a million people-923,000 men and 86,000 women-served in the Royal Navy in the Second World War. The training of these men, and the women of the WRNS, was a major task in wartime Britain. It was to be the first real citizen navy, the only one in history apart from the US Navy and Commonwealth Navies that were to appear in the same conflict. Based on official documents, as well as personal accounts by people such as Evelyn Waugh, Nicholas Monsarrat, Tristan Jones and J.P.W. Mallalieu, this book tells one of the major untold stories of the Second World War. 

A great insight into all the work that went in behind the scenes and the amount of resouces required.  I think it will be very popular with anyone who went through this personally as the detail is quite exceptional.

It will also prove useful for anyone perhaps studying or specialising in the Navy in military studies.

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