A Merciful Journey
Recollections of a World War II Patrol Boat Man
$54.44
- Hardcover
360 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2005
Summary
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 col…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522851656 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522851657 |
| Author: | Marsden Hordern |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2005 |
| Weight: | 840g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 161mm x 243mm |
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Marsden Hordern
After serving in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II, Marsden Hordern took up flying and ocean sailing and for some years navigated yachts in the early Sydney-Hobart races. He founded a print gallery in Sydney, was a director of two public companies, served as a Lieutenant and Lieutenant-Commander with the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Naval Reserves, and was awarded the Volunteer Reserve Decoration. His two previous books Mariners are Warned!- John Lort Stokes and H.M.S. Beagle in Australia 1837-1843 (1989) and King of the Australian Coast- The Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst 1817-1822 (1997) were published by the Miegunyah Press to great acclaim. In recognition of the contribution made by these books to Australian history, in 2004 the University of Sydney conferred on him the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters.
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