Gerald O'Driscoll

A Dictionary of Naval Slang

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Swift Press
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 147g
• ISBN-13: 9781800753938
• ISBN-10: 1800753934
• Artikelnr.: 75838680

Autorenporträt

GERALD O'DRISCOLL (1886 - 1947) was an Irish sailor, journalist, and humourist who also wrote under the pen-name 'Geraldus'. A veteran of the Royal Navy, he wrote several best-selling books memorialising the sailor's world including The Musings of a Merry Matloe (1927) and Awful Disclosures of a Bluejacket (1929). A Dictionary of Naval Slang, his last book, was published at the height of the Second World War. RICHARD HUMPHREYS is a British writer and memoirist. Born in Wolverhampton, he spent many years in the Royal Navy as a diver and submariner, including multiple patrols on the UK's Polaris class nuclear submarines in the 1980s. His experiences aboard Britain's nuclear deterrent formed the basis of his best-selling memoir Under Pressure: Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine, published in 2019. He lives in London.