Buy this book on-line HALLAM, RICHARD and BEYNON, MARK - Compiled by: : SCRIMGEOUR'S SMALL SCRIBBLING DIARY: THE TRULY ASTONISHING WARTIME DIARIES AND LETTERS OF AN EDWARDIAN GENTLEMAN,NAVAL OFFICER,BOY AND SONLONDON.CONWAY MARITIME BOOK/ANOVA BOOKS LTD.,2008. ISBN 9781844860753.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[See my book ID rja1016822 for a newer and expanded edn, celebrating centenary of subject's death with extra material.]FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no dw/dj but publisher's issued,approx 2/3rds size of boards,wrap-around band,and price printed to rear band.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,matt,brown background paper-covered boards with black ink printed lettering and brown facsimile reproduction general information illustrated endpapers+ pastedowns,and publisher's facsimile brown paper wrap-around band illustrated with subject's autobiographical,naval uniformed monochrome photograph to front band and 2 diary extracts to rear band; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread - apart from my own collation.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-304pp [paginated] includes list/table of charts and illustrations,acknowledgements,foreword by Richard Hallam (descendant of the book's subject),an introduction by Mark Beynon,'Rule Britannia': The RN in 1914 by Prof.Andrew Lambert,list of abbreviations,annual diary extracts from years 1914 to 1916,profuse contemporary,facsimile b/w nautical charts,maps, sketches and diagrams throughout the text and the book,and 16pp contemporary b/w auto+ biographical photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp96/7 and pp208/9 respectively, appendices I-V and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a contents list/table.
When 19-year-old Alexander Scrimgeour lost his life in HMS Invincible at the Battle of Jutland in 1916,he left an exceptional legacy - his personal diaries and letters spanning the years 1910 to 1916.
Concentrating on the years of the First World War,this book presents a rare and unique insight into the naval war through the eyes of a young midshipman.Full of sharp observation and warm wit,Alexander is at once the articulate and opinionated Royal Navy officer musing on the U-boat menace and the characters of his superiors,and the precocious adolescent reprimanding his mother,enjoying 'cocktails and fizz' at the Adelphi,or pining for his society sweetheart.
Alexander Scrimgeour is one of the lost generation,but his voice still resonates almost a century later in these revelatory private writings,and will linger in the memory long after the last fateful pages are turned.
Scrimgeour's wartime diaries and letters have been transcribed and compiled by descendant Richard Hallam and historian and screenwriter Mark Beynon.
An introduction by Professor Andrew Lambert provides further naval and historical context. Andrew Lambert is Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College,London.Hs work focuses on the naval and strategic history of the British Empire between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War.He lectures around the world and has published a number of highly respected books and articles.
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