Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Sailor's Heart by Martin Campbell


Started: 6/28/2023

Finished: 7/2/2023

Year: 2020

Pages: 278

Genre: military/mental health

Grade: B-

Reason for reading: review for Reader Views

Type: paperback

Blurb (from Amazon): "Based on true events

"1942.The war at sea is being lost. One per cent of all naval personnel are being referred as psychiatric casualties. The British Admiralty introduces the Stone Frigate approach.

"Three men fight for their country in the Arctic convoys of World War II, then for their sanity and dignity, labelled as cowards and subjected to experimental psychiatry at an isolated facility set up to by the British Admiralty to recycle men back into battle.

"To the Navy they are faulty parts, not constitutionally suited to operate at sea. To the public they are poltroons, malingerers and psychiatric cases.

"The places in this story are real, but everyone who played a part in what happened is now dead. It is safe to tell what really happened. What was important then, nobody cares about now.

"True courage is facing danger when you are afraid, surviving in the circus of war."

Opinion: It is obvious that a lot of research went into this novel.


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