Discharged Dead: The Wartime Adventures of a Submarine Stoker

A vivid stoker's-eye view of life in a submarine during the Second World War.

The perfect World War Two memoir for people who enjoyed the works of James D. Hornfischer, Robert Leckie, and Laura Hillenbrand.

In 1939, at the age of twenty, Sydney Hart joined the Royal Navy as a stoker. Over the course of the next four years, he served in submarines during the most critical phases of the war-in the North Sea, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean.

Aboard HMSTriad, HMSTruant, and HMSThrasher, Hart e...