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"Frozen Fury"

Posted by Fran Kent on June 12, 2010, 6:22 pm
Message modified by board administrator June 13, 2010, 12:57 pm

My copy of John Haynes' book came with today's mail and I'm already three chapters into it. At this point I can say without reservation that it's worth every nickel of what it cost. An unexpected bonus is Steve Myer's poem.

An aside: how the mind tricks us. Reading John's messages here, I've pictured him, as I picture us all, as a boy in undress blues. The pictures in the book show him not only so but also as a decidedly mature man.

-- Fran

Re: "Frozen Fury"

Posted by John Haynes on June 13, 2010, 12:58 pm, in reply to ""Frozen Fury""

Fran, thank you so very much kind words of endorsement of my book "Frozen Fury: The Murmansk Run of Convoy PQ-13". Many thanks to Steve Myer for allowing me to include his "The Murmansk Run" poem; it just seemed so fitting for it to be there.

Yes, we do tend to think of ourselves and our fellow seafarers as boys in dress blues, but then reality sets in. At 87 I still feel young so why can't I move as fast as I used to?...

Re: "Frozen Fury"

Posted by Fran Kent on June 13, 2010, 8:03 pm, in reply to "Re: "Frozen Fury""
Message modified by board administrator June 14, 2010, 6:52 am

Many thanks to Ron for the judicious editing. Not incidentally, I've finished the book, which I can say is no dispassionate, as-told-to account of a genuinely terrifying experience. Haynes was THERE, and he takes the reader with him into a gun tub on an ancient freighter in conditions a lot of people didn't survive.
This comment is in no way meant to diminish the forthcoming work of Steve Myer, who is writing a novel based on a similar, if not the same, convoy to Murmansk.

Atonement

Posted by Fran Kent on June 14, 2010, 3:03 pm, in reply to "Re: "Frozen Fury""

I hereby promise solemnly to post here no more until I can spell Steve Myers' name properly. I have no excuse but accumulating years and the clumsiness they bring.

-- Fran

Re: Atonement

Posted by Ron Carlson on June 14, 2010, 3:31 pm, in reply to "Atonement"

Go easy on yourself, Fred.

Ron Carlson, Webmaster

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