Description: A Sailors Odyssey is a very personal story, Chester details the day-to-day life and incidents from a decade at sea. I found the descriptions of life in the Merchant Marine to be particularly fascinating as there is not much written about that. His wartime progression and commands were not unique but his previous experience in the commercial shipping trade certainly left him better prepared than most of his contemporaries and even many of his superiors. He does not gloss over anything he experienced or observed, calling out the good and the bad in equal measure. This includes his own physical decline when the unceasing demands of command and constant strain impacted his health. I can highly recommend this book, both for its descriptions of Navy life and insights into the Merchant Marine at the end of an era. Please review the photos for condition and thank you for looking.
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Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Product Group: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Book Title: A Sailor's Odyssey At Peace and at War 1935-1945
Item Length: 6 in
Publisher: Odysseus Books
Weight: 20 oz
Edition: First Edition, Special Edition
IsTextBook: No
Personalize: No
Publication Year: 1991
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 9 in
Author: Alvin P. Chester
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Genre: History
Topic: Military / World War II
Item Width: 1 in
Number of Pages: 289 Pages
