Two Survived

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William McFee ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from The Lyons Press was reviewed on 14-Oct-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Two Survived by The Lyons Press. This was a very good book, so authentic you almost feel part of the hapless crew of this boat. The strong point is, it was written during the war, and it was not edited afterwards.. Luckily for us readers. You get a very authentic feel of how things were seen then. Excellent, well worth reading!¤

2) Paperback Book Two Survived by The Lyons Press. This is an excellent book. All Brave Sailors by Revell Carr covers the same story in much greater detail and is also recommended highly.¤

3) Paperback Book Two Survived by The Lyons Press. This is an amazing survival story but I think it could have been written better. This story was written in 1940 or 1941 right after the events described take place. The copy of the book I have was printed in 2001. Even though it is 60 years later they still say things like "they can´t say where the convoy was headed because of security concerns...." I think 60 years later it is fine to know where a coal cargo ship is heading. There are several things like this in the book - it just shows 60 years later they didn´t even spend a few minutes updating some minor details. That´s minor stuff.

What I thought was worse was the way the author wrote the book. He starts of the first few pages telling you most of the story... who dies ... who survives... how long it all took... where the survivors finish their journey. I think that is a very poor way to tell a story. It´s like watching a five minute edit of a movie just before you see the whole movie - kind of ruins most of the suspense. It´s a good story but I would recommend skipping the intro & reading it at the end of the book. The guys endured some terrible events for sure. I do think it is worth reading if you like survival stories - it is one of the most amazing survival stories ever.

A much better read I would recommend is "Adrift".

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4) Paperback Book Two Survived by The Lyons Press. On August 21, 1940, a Nazi raider torpedoed the British merchantman Anglo-Saxon and machine-gunned the survivors as they tried to escape in their lifeboats. One little boat escaped with seven men. Five of them perished, but Robert Tapscott and Wilbert Widdicombe endured for seventy full days and 2,300 miles to landfall on the other side of the Atlantic. This is the incredible account of their ordeal -- one of the most thrilling stories of the sea that almost never came to light. The little ship´s complement included Penny, a forty-two-year-old World War I veteran, Hawkes, making his first voyage at the age of twenty-two, and Pilcher, a young Londoner, who rowed in the darkness for some time before he discovered that a shot had reduced his feet to a pulp of mangled flesh and bone. In one of the most moving episodes of the odyssey, he would turn his head away from his ration of water on his last day of life so that the others might survive. "It has seldom happened, " writes William McFee in the introduction, "that a narrative so circumstantial, so entirely stripped of all humbug and false sentiment, has come out of the depths of the sea, to inspire us with admiration for human valor." "Two Survived" is an unforgettable true story of survival against the very longest odds.¤

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