Luck on my Side
PALMER, John
The Diaries and Reflections of a Young Wartime Sailor 1939-1945.
Published: Leo Cooper [Barnsley, 2002]
Stock code: 9891
Price: £12.00
8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates on 8 and several full-page facsimiles in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Based principally on the author's wartime diary notes. Palmer served in the corvette HMS Clematis, the frigate Exe and finally the sloop Amethyst which, in 1949, achieved fame for her audacious escape down the Yangste River.