The Blue Diary: A Novel
Christopher Findlay
ISBN 10: 1954163630 ISBN 13: 9781954163638
Verlag: Hellgate Press, 2023
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England, 1941. At Royal Air Force Station Acklington, Northumberland, pilots of RAF 702 Squadron and RCAF 466 Squadron are being pushed to the wall by Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe. Mysterious accidents keep happening. Unexplained crashes wipe out planes and their crews. Rumours of sabotage begin to spread through the Canadian squadron, rumours that turn to certainty when a top secret mission to neutralize a revolutionary new Luftwaffe radar system goes terribly awry. Desperate and angry, squadron leaders bring their suspicions to the military higher-ups, only to be met with skepticism and even hostility…
Fast forward to Ottawa, 2001. Roger Sampson, a Canadian relative of one of the deceased Squadron 466 pilots, has become intrigued by the wartime mystery. But even now, sixty years after the events in question, Roger finds that his attempts to unearth the truth about the sabotage are being actively thwarted. His only clues are contained in the long-lost blue-cover diary kept by the squadron adjutant, Jim Baldwin. Roger’s quest to find out what really happened at Acklington takes him to Germany and the UK — and face-to-face with a wartime conspiracy so loaded with implications that it is still withheld from the Canadian public sixty years later.
Written by an amateur pilot and enthusiast of wartime aviation history, this mystery novel evokes the grimy, nuts-and-bolts feel of RAF bases during the Second World War…and the harrowing war in the air.
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Titel: The Blue Diary: A Novel
Verlag: Hellgate Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Einband: Paperback
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1873 - 1879 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A REAL LIFE BRITISH NAVY BLUE JACKET WHOSE NAVAL CAREER READS LIKE A FORESTER NOVEL
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Zustand: Good. On offer is an original, significant 1873 through 1879 manuscript diary and scrapbook memoir of one 'Blue Jacket's' service in the Royal Navy. Handwritten by Thomas Pilcher Pritchard's (1851-1932) who retrospectively begins detailing his early naval career under Earl De Gray and Ripon in 1867, Lord Hardinge in 1869, the cutter Raglan in 1872 until March 1873 when Pritchard joins the HMS Argus. Pritchard's 120+ page narrative together with pasted in photograph, newspaper cuttings tipped in over manuscript and colour prints of flags describes an enviable career for those salty 'tars' that seek to see the world: Madeira, St. Vincent, Cape Coast, West Africa, (he transfers from the Argus to HMS Dromedary for a spell and then back), Lagos, Ascension, Bermuda, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Barbados, Demerara, South American ports, Newport and Providence, Rhode Island, and back to the West Indies, including Barbados and Jamaica, Havana, Nassau, Tobago, and Bermuda, the St. Lawrence River and Quebec in Canada, finally returning to Portsmouth in 1877. [Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower's crews have nothing over Pritchard!] The journal continues to 1879 when he is on half pay and working in dockyards. Great descriptions abound on the places visited, shipboard crew and local shore life, HMS Argus' involvement in a number of conflicts. Here are some snippets: "13 June 1873: 'joined the boats of H.M. ships Barracoutta, Druid, Sea Gull, Decoy and others and went ashore up the river and anchored off the town of Elmina, close to the houses, and in sight of some thousands of natives who were all armed and waiting for us to begin. At 12 at noon, the first shot was fired and we kept up continually firing shells and rockets, for about and hour, by this time the town was in flames, and the cries of the women and children mixed with that of pigs, goats, sheep, dogs &c, was almost defening, in the midst of this confusion we landed, and drove every one who had stopped, out of the town, shot some, made several prisoners, and came on board in the evening tired out, the heat in the day was something awfull. The Town burnt for about a week, over two hundred bodies, were buried in a large hole, and there must have been several hundred wounded. Loss to the English, one marine of H.M.S. Barracoutta.' There is an extended nine page description of engagements and casualties in the Third Anglo-Ashanti War: 29 April 1876 'Saturday arrived at Barbados . Landed the troops, there has been an insurrection here the rebels have burnt and destroyed a lot of property mostly sugar plantations, and killing the cattle, several lives lost and lots of prisoners' 'Saturday May 6th, 1876. HMS Argus arrived at the island of Tobago . there is a row on here the same as Barbadoes, the rebels threatening the town of Scarborough. Sunday May 6th took on board the Governor and others, and steamed full speed to another part of the islands, arrived in the full noon, rig of the day, blew working rig white capcovers. Monday our boats brought off several prisoners, one woman, charged with murder. Tuesday 9th took on board nine prisoners taken on shore, and landed twenty armed men, eight blue jackets and the gunners mate, and ten marines, and a sergeant, in charge of our first lieutenant and left them on shore .' Pritchard does a yeoman job as a diarist adding much depth describing his social life, his strong religious convictions, church going at Wesleyan chapels, and of no surprise as a naval rating he frequently 'got drunk' as he openly noted, had fights and mayhaps the odd time he wakes up in a cell. He took himself in hand by joining temperance organisations in 'Bermuda. Dec19th 1874 . joined Providence Lodge No.3 of the Independent Order of Good Templars, Bermuda'. Other lodges were joined at other ports of call and back in England. He meets many ladies with special mention of Miss Constance Miles of Halifax, Nova Scotia, with whom he develops a close relationship, and corresponds re. Manuscript. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0002196
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