Post by KG on Dec 5, 2010 20:07:31 GMT
I was interested in your website about raising the profile of the MN. That was one reason why I wrote GOODBYE OLD CHAP, A LIFE AT SEA IN PEACE AND WAR. It is about my father, Captain Stanley Algar. He was born in 1899 and saw service in both world wars. He was captured in the second and imprisoned in Germany for four years. My book is based, in part, on his diaries, written in the POW camp and kept hidden from the Germans.
I have given many talks about the book, not least as I'm donating my royalties to the Red Cross without whose food parcels my father and many others might have starved to death.
You might like to know that part of the presentation is devoted to answering the question of why I spent years researching to write the book. As mentined above, one of the major reasons is that I wanted to publicise the role of the MN, not least in war. Every time that I say this, there are always nods and murmurs of agreement from the audience.
Best wishes, Philip Algar
Goodbye Old Chap: A Life at Sea in Peace and War
Tells the story of Stanley Algar, (1899 - 1992), a captain on an oil tanker. He led a remarkable life and fortunately kept diaries meticulously, and, whilst a prisoner of war for many years, a war log. His diaries include a graphic and moving account of his liberation and his return to England.
www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Goodbye+Old+Chap%3A+A+Life+at+Sea+in+Peace+and+War&x=24&y=18
K.
I have given many talks about the book, not least as I'm donating my royalties to the Red Cross without whose food parcels my father and many others might have starved to death.
You might like to know that part of the presentation is devoted to answering the question of why I spent years researching to write the book. As mentined above, one of the major reasons is that I wanted to publicise the role of the MN, not least in war. Every time that I say this, there are always nods and murmurs of agreement from the audience.
Best wishes, Philip Algar
Goodbye Old Chap: A Life at Sea in Peace and War
Tells the story of Stanley Algar, (1899 - 1992), a captain on an oil tanker. He led a remarkable life and fortunately kept diaries meticulously, and, whilst a prisoner of war for many years, a war log. His diaries include a graphic and moving account of his liberation and his return to England.
www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Goodbye+Old+Chap%3A+A+Life+at+Sea+in+Peace+and+War&x=24&y=18
K.