2 Novels by John Winton
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Overview: John Pratt, pen name John Winton, was an English author and obituarist, following a career in the Royal Navy in which he rose to Lieutenant-Commander. He was born in London and served in the Korean War and during the Suez Crisis. Whilst still in the Navy, he wrote the comic novel We Joined the Navy, featuring the character of "The Artful Bodger". Several other novels, and a number of non-fiction works on naval subjects, followed, including a biography of Admiral John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe. Pratt also served for 14 years as an obituarist for The Daily Telegraph.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
HMS Leviathan Set in the 1960s this novel details the trials and tribulations of Royal Navy Commander Bob Markready who tries to inspire his sailors and airmen alike to get a troubled aircraft carrier back on track.
Long regarded as a classic of its type.
Aircraft Carrier Through the story of the terrible experiences of "Skipper", a Royal Navy Air Squadron Leader, John Winton gives an authentic account of the last months of WW II in the Pacific, which are made all the grimmer and deadlier by the Japanese obstinate and heroic resistance, while war in Europe has already reached its end with Germany’s defeat.
Naval fiction readers will no doubt appreciate the masterly portrayal of both the operations on-board a WW II Aircraft Carrier and the different behaviours and reactions of the involved pilots and sailors, such as can be described by an author who has lived throughout the actual events he writes about.
There is no trace of rhetoric or boast: the story is written in a sober and matter-of-fact style, so that it might remind us of "The Cruel Sea", Nicholas Monsarrat’s masterpiece.
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