Stephen Roskill reprinted by Wordsworth Roskill was involved in writing the Official History but this is his more populist history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War. This is a great story of staggering bravery and endurance on all sides. We go through the U-boat battles, the clashes in the Med, the Artic, the Atlantic and the Pacific. Roskill is recognisably one of the Band of Brothers that were so parodied by Beyond The Fringe, but at this remove the story has a very great immediacy. We only got away with it by the skin of our teeth. A good pacey read that is accessible to the layman, and a real bargain at the price. Makes one return to War At Sea determined to do better. More Old Duffer's Book Corner (book reviews) Exercise of Arms: Warfare in the Netherlands 1568-1648 The Anglo-Scots Wars 1513-1550 Seapower and Naval Warfare 1650-1830 The Making of A World Power The Punic Wars The Roman Army At War 100BC – AD200 The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire The Victory of Seapower: Winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814 Vittoria 1813 The Battle of Koniggratz 1866 and The History of K.u.K Infantry Regiment Graf Khevenhuller-Metsch Nr 35 Patton The Navy At War 1939-1945 Medieval Warfare From Louis XIV to Napoleon: The Fall of A Great Power The Army of Francis Joseph Back to Perfidious Albion #100 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com