Fighting Captain (Pen & Sword Military Classics) - Softcover

Burn, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844154394 ISBN 13: 9781844154395

Publisher: Pen and Sword Military, 2006

Synopsis

Captain F J Walker, RN, did more than any other man at sea to win the Battle of the Atlantic, a vicious and unrelenting struggle which Churchill described as the dominating factor throughout World War Two.

He was a formidable figure and one of the greatest fighting captains in the Royal Navy, sinking twenty U-boats. For this he was awarded a CB and four DSOs.

A month after D-Day, exhausted by his continuous actions at sea against the enemy and his successful exertions to keep the U-boats out of the English Channel to ensure the safe passage of the Allied landings at D-day, he went ashore in Liverpool after a patrol. His ships and the men he had trained and inspired were already back at sea when he died on the 9 July, 1944, aged 48.

His ships went on to sink another nine U-boats, bringing his flotillas’ total up to twenty-nine, before the U-boat fleet finally surrendered. Fifteen of which were sunk by Walker’s own ship, HMS Starling.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1844154394
• ISBN 13: 9781844154395
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224