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050 00 $aV737$b.M35 2002
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100 1 $aMcKee, Christopher.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007043729
245 10 $aSober men and true :$bsailor lives in the Royal Navy, 1900-1945 /$cChristopher McKee.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bHarvard University Press,$c2002.
263 $a0205
300 $a285 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"The image of the naval sailor is that of an enigmatic but compelling figure, a globe-trotting adventurer, swaggering and irresponsible in port but swift to flex the national muscle at sea and beyond. Appealing as this popular image may be, scant effort has been expended to reveal the truth behind the stereotype.".
520 8 $a"Thanks to Christopher McKee's work, it is now possible to hear from sailors themselves - in this case, those who served in Great Britain's Royal Navy during the first half of the twentieth century. McKee has scoured sailors' unpublished diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral interviews to uncover the lives and secret thoughts of British men of the lower deck.
520 8 $aFrom working-class childhoods teetering on the edge of poverty to the hardships of finding civilian employment after leaving the navy; from sexual initiation in the brothels of Oran and Alexandria to the terror of battle, the former sailors speak with candor about all aspects of naval life: the harsh discipline and deep comradeship, the shipboard homoeroticism, the pleasures and temptations of world travel, and the responsibilities of marriage and family."--BOOK JACKET.
610 10 $aGreat Britain.$bRoyal Navy$xSea life.
650 0 $aSailors$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
852 00 $boff,glx$hV737$i.M35 2002