Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book, My Name is Frank, A Sea Merchant Talks, 1st March 2021
... frank laskier...seafarers...sailors...seafaring life...ww2...world war 2...merchant navy...bbc...radio...liverpool...second world war...australia...padre oliver...battle of the atlantic...frank laskier (1912-1949...Frank Laskier visited the Mission on several occasions. In his second book, a fictionalized autobiography, Log Book, he mentions the Mission and his welcoming experience there. frank laskier seafarers sailors seafaring life ww2 world war 2 merchant navy bbc radio liverpool second world war australia padre oliver battle of the atlantic frank laskier (1912-1949) gunner log book From the 1942 cover:
We are proud to announce this book by Frank Laskier, "a sailor, an Englishman," the merchant seaman who gave the ever-memorable postscript after the BBC news on the first Sunday in October.
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From the 1942 cover:
We are proud to announce this book by Frank Laskier, "a sailor, an Englishman," the merchant seaman who gave the ever-memorable postscript after the BBC news on the first Sunday in October.
The millions of listeners who heard that deeply moving voice will welcome an opportunity to read many more stories of the war at sea, which Laskier tells with the incomparable vividness of simple truth, and which made him a great broadcast speaker overnight.
Laskier sounds, too, the note of victory that will bring a universal response-"Remember what we have been through; remember what we're going through; and fight and fight, and never, never, never, give in!"
The publisher of this new edition has included an introduction and explanatory footnotes, as well as an appendix listing the ships mentioned in the book along with their descriptions.
First published in 1942 by George Allen & Unwin, London
Paperback blue cover with red English merchant Navy flag. 74 pagesfictionFrom the 1942 cover:
We are proud to announce this book by Frank Laskier, "a sailor, an Englishman," the merchant seaman who gave the ever-memorable postscript after the BBC news on the first Sunday in October.
The millions of listeners who heard that deeply moving voice will welcome an opportunity to read many more stories of the war at sea, which Laskier tells with the incomparable vividness of simple truth, and which made him a great broadcast speaker overnight.
Laskier sounds, too, the note of victory that will bring a universal response-"Remember what we have been through; remember what we're going through; and fight and fight, and never, never, never, give in!"
The publisher of this new edition has included an introduction and explanatory footnotes, as well as an appendix listing the ships mentioned in the book along with their descriptions.
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