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"Neither the Time nor the Tide" presents an account of the life of Lieutenant Commander Cuthbertson, a highly decorated Royal Naval Reserve officer who experienced sustained combat through the course of the Second World War between 1939 and 1945. The book draws upon his previously unpublished diaries, official Allied and German wartime records and interviews with surviving participants to present a first hand account of the life of a naval engineer in combat and how these experiences affected his postwar life. An account is given for the first time of Convoy HX-126's battle for survival against German U-boat Wolfpack attack and foray of the German battleship Bismarck into the North Atlantic.

About the Author The author was born and raised in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, and has lived and worked in some twenty-three countries throughout the world. After a period of service with the New Zealand Army he completed a twenty-year professional career in the international mining industry as a senior exploration executive with the Rio Tinto Group of Companies. In that time he wrote extensively on the mining industry and historical aspects of colonial mining investigations in South East Asia, South America, and Eastern Europe, and lectured to industry groups and postgraduate students in Australia and Canada. He has undergraduate and postgraduate scientific qualifications that are complemented by an MBA degree from the world-renowned Mt Eliza Business School in Melbourne, Australia. Since 1998, the author has consulted to mining companies throughout the world and reviewed and edited professional papers submitted for international mining industry conferences. Between assignments he has developed his interest in raising and training German Shepherd tracker dogs. As State Publicity Officer for Australia’s largest State breed dog club, the German Shepherd Dog Club of Victoria, he reports on newsworthy current events for a number of nationally and internationally circulated magazines. He has published articles promoting the breed as a working animal and responsible member of the community, and reported upon the use of working dogs in the nomadic societies of Central Asia. Wide recognition was received for his acclaimed trilogy of short stories recording the life and experiences of his first dog. With an extended family spread throughout the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States of America, Australia, and New Zealand, this review of his father’s Second World War diary and life thereafter continues an interest in his family’s colourful military and migrant history across the twentieth century. The author is married with a teenage son and lives in Melbourne, Australia.