Destroyer Man
London, England: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1957. First Edition, Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 224 pages. Some endpaper discoloration. DJ is worn, torn, and chipped. The author was one of the Royal Navy's great commanders of small ships. This book is the story of an outstanding fighting sailor's war. His success as a leader in combined operations led to his appointment to command the naval side of the amphibious assault on the Dutch island of Walcheren, in which his landing craft gained imperishable fame. In the last month of the war. his force played a vital role, operating under extraordinary conditions in the canals, waterways, and estuaries of the Low Countries. This is a record of World War 2 as seen by through a destroyer man's eyes, It is essentially a picture of the war from an operational angle--from the point of view of the user of the weapons put into his hands by others. Donald George Frederick Wyville Macintyre DSO & Two Bars, DSC (26 January 1904 – 23 May 1981) was a Royal Navy officer during the Second World War and a successful convoy escort commander. Following the war, he was an author of numerous books on British naval history. More