One never knows whether a movie, a history, a biography, or an autobiography will strike first, generating interest in a subject. In 1935 he joined the then new publishing firm of penguin books and was responsible for designing the cover scheme used by penguin for many years as well as drawing the original penguin logo. Young s wartime biography describes his rise through the ranks of the royal navy volunteer reserve during the second world war. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Submarine books store used and rare submarine and uboat books. One of our submarines by edward young world of rare. One of our submarines by edward young nook book ebook.
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Edward young books list of books by author edward young. One of our submarines a mayflower book by edward young. Please see wikipedias template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. This book gives some idea of what the royal naval volunteer reserve officers and the royal naval reserve officers had to face in transforming themselves from amateurs into the equals and, at times, the superiors of the professionals in. The book does not relate what happened to young after the war, but from an obituary in the guardian 2 february 2003 i learn that he returned to publishing and also wrote several more nonfiction books. The worlds largest submarine book store for submarine and u boat books about submarines for submariners. Before the war storms captain, edward young, had been in publishing, and when he returned to the trade he described his wartime service in the book one of our submarines including his account of the loss of hms umpire. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. Young the high quality of prose in edward youngs one of our submarines led me to look into the authors background. Wwii submarine history books us submarine rc submarine model submarine ww2 submarine book store submarine plan submarine models submarine picture nuclear submarine book store specializing in new, used, and rare submarine and u boat books. He writes beautifully, economically and with humour. He writes beautifully, economically and with humour, and in the actions he commands he manages to put the reader at the voicepipe and the periscope so that sometimes the tension is so great that one has.
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All because, thirtyone years earlier in a secondhand bookshop in croydon, i had picked up a copy of edward youngs one of our submarines. This print is a replica of the book s original cover. One of our submarines by edward young world of books. Later, he immortalised his distinguished war service as a submariner in. Submarine books store used and rare submarine and uboat. And, for the british perspective, read one of our submarines by edward young. One of our submarines is a song by british musician thomas dolby. One of our submarines by young edward, first edition.
Horrified to learn the loss of 18 submarines in 1940 alone. One of our submarines by edward young 1982, paperback. Two years later, penguin books honoured their former member of staff by making the paperback edition of one of our submarines the th penguin publication. One of our submarines by edward young, 9781853266812, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Feb 04, 2003 edward teddy young, who has died aged 89, was the man who found the penguin for penguin books literally, at london zoo. My choice of mr youngs work was anticipated to be a anti climax but it is proving to be most interesting. Edward young was the wartime commander of hms storm a british s type submarine. Speaking as one who has visited one of that vessels many sister ships hms stubborn deliberately sunk off malta in 1946 as an asdic target, i know a little albeit very little of the excitement these ships are able to generate. Edward teddy young, who has died aged 89, was the man who found the penguin for penguin books literally, at london zoo. German u boats of the kriegsmarine and submarines of other nations. In 1952, young wrote his autobiography entitled one of our submarines which was published by rupert hartdavis ltd. It was a title i might well have overlooked, for submarines have rarely enjoyed a good press.
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