In this event-filled yarn of a life spent on the sea, Donald Turtle tells the spine-chilling story of his services on tankers in the North Atlantic convoys during World War II, and bemoans the decline of the British fishing industry that he witnessed personally in his subsequent career as a long-line fisherman out of Newlyn, Cornwall, UK.

"...I heard the high-pitched whining of a torpedo, then a 'chink', followed by a sound as if a demolition ball had swung against the ship's side and hit the plate where I was standing. This was quickly followed by two more. Before I reached the deck again, with some haste, a ship in the outer column had disappeared....'

Donald's fascinating book takes the reader through the lives and times of two generations of fishermen from Newlyn; from being at war in Europe to being at war with Europe with the arrival of the Common Fisheries Policy. Vessels destroyed at sea in combat and, more recently, destroyed on the beach inside Newlyn harbour thanks to the latest round of decommissioning!

A forthright commentary with numerous pictures add to the richness of this, often poignant story.

Copies of the book can be ordered from the publisher by email:

turtle@wordmongers.demon.co.uk

www.wordmongers.com

or by writing to the author at Olive Villa, Boase Street, Newlyn, Cornwall TR18 BJE