Full Circle

Cualann Press, 2003. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Near Fine - in Near Fine DJ. Very small mark to the leading edge of the text block.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper ). It is May 1939. By an Act of Parliament, national military service has just been introduced for the first time in peacetime in the UK. A young man on the threshold of his career as a journalist is summoned to an office in Central London's Victoria Street. There, Commander Rump, RN, tells him he is going to be called up with the first 500 twenty-one-year-olds into the Royal Navy to do six months preliminary training. To give publicity to the Naval side of the call-up, the Commander tells him he will be made 'RN Special Reservist No. 1' and expected to write about it in his national daily. But with the Second World War breaking out, he served over six years. 320pp. Index. Size: 8vo Medium (8” x 5½” approx.) ISBN: 0953503690 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #137732|| Condition: