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Format:	Hardcover	Publication Year:	2005
Subject:	Military & War	Special Attributes:	--
	Specific Wars	Language:	English
	World War II	Condition:	New

A Merciful Journey
Recollections of a World War II Patrol Boat Man

By Marsden Hordern

Published in 2005 by Miegunyah Press, Australia
HARDCOVER, 334 Pages
Size - 25cm * 17cm

Illustrated!


		Condition

The book is in new condition, the dustjacket is in perfect condition and is fitted with a custom-made, heavy duty protective cover.


		About the Book

In 1939 Marsden Hordern's mother refused to sign the paper allowing her seventeen-year-old son to fight overseas with the Royal Australian Air Force. 'I did not rear you to be killed in an aeroplane,' she said. 'Join the navy.' He took her advice and in doing so determined his future. In small patrol boats, Fairmiles and a Harbour Defence Motor Launch, he patrolled the shores of Japanese-held territory, assisted beleaguered commandos in Timor, and was finally caught up in the drama of collecting Japanese prisoners of war from the islands.

A Merciful Journey presents a vivid and compelling account of Hordern's life from a happy childhood growing up in Sydney during the Great Depression, to his years serving in the Royal Australian Navy from 1942 to 1947. Drawing on the letters and journals he wrote at the time, Hordern engagingly recounts his triumphs and disasters as a naval officer, detailing his rise from a young and callow sub-lieutenant to a lieutenant in command of his own ship. He recalls his hopes and fears, and, in the face of the horrors of war, reveals an appealing enthusiasm for new experiences and a growing love of the sea.

A Merciful Journey is a delightful memoir of a young man's coming of age in wartime.

Illustrated with 16 pages of B&W photos and maps on endpapers

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