This highly acclaimed and popular series of humourous books of naval life has now been reprinted in hardback. Readers can follow the adventures of the Artful Bodger.
He was the Assyrian, to come down like a wolf on the fold. The Bodger sat bolt upright, and at once felt a violent pang in his temples. Seeing Jimmy Forster-Jones off the night before had been an arduous business. None of them, The Bodger conceded now, were as young as they were. And talking of t...
‘Port Watch to the river, Starboard Watch to P.T., Beattys, right and left . . . turn! By the right . . . double . . . march!’It was six o’clock in the morning. A grey Devon dawn had just established itself and its wan and cheerless light illuminated the Port Watch, in shorts and singlets, percol...
Only two chairs were provided, one for Commander S/M and the other for Lieutenant-Commander Barney Lightfoot, resident staff officer; submarine captains, visitors and onlookers all stood. On one wall were bunches of signals and a map of the English Channel; on another, a large board on which were...
Broody had been enthusiastic about the Visitors’ Book, always passing it round when there were guests present. ‘If nothing else, it’ll give you and Ollie something to read during the refit,’ he had said to Dagwood.The Visitor’s Book was, in its own way, as complete a record of the commission as t...