Looming Lights by George Goldsmith Carter (HQ292)

Published 1947: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated frontispiece

Original green cloth with titles on the spine. 167 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled edges. Boards slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. (HQ292)

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An illuminating account of a young man's service as an extra man aboard a light vessel in the early months of WW2.

In his book Looming Lights, George Goldsmith Carter describes life aboard a lightvessel guarding the world’s most dangerous sandbank: the Goodwin, maritime grave of thousands of sailors

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 March 2014
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An illuminating account of a young man's service as an extra man aboard a light vessel in the early months of WW2. The author was born in Aldeburgh and early chapters of the book recall boyhood memories and his varied first jobs. The raison d'etre for the book however is shock and anger that the Germans chose deliberately to attack light vessels. There's raw emotion in this book whi was written in 1945.