A Home on the Rolling Main: A Naval Memoir 1940-1946

This WWII memoir of a Royal Navy Lieutenant offers a vivid account of maritime combat throughout the European Theater.

From first joining the Royal Navy in 1940 until the end of the campaign against Japan, Tony Ditcham was in the front line of the naval war. He served aboard the battlecruiser HMS Renown in the North Sea and Gibraltar. Serving on destroyers in most of the European theatres, he saw action against S-boats and aircraft off Britain's East Coast, on Arctic convoys to Russia, an...