John Winton

John Pratt , pseudonym John Winton (3 maj 1931 i London – 27 april 2001) var en engelsk författare och dödsrunare , efter en karriär i Royal Navy där han steg till Lieutenant-Commander . Han föddes i London och tjänstgjorde i Koreakriget och under Suezkrisen . Medan han fortfarande var i marinen, skrev han den komiska romanen We Joined the Navy , med karaktären "The Artful Bodger". Flera andra romaner och ett antal facklitteratur om sjöfartsämnen följde, inklusive en biografi om amiral John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe . Pratt tjänstgjorde också i 14 år som nekrolog för The Daily Telegraph .

Arbetar

Fiktion

• Vi gick med i flottan (London: Michael Joseph, 1959)
• We Saw the Sea (London: Michael Joseph, 1960)
• Down the Hatch (London: Michael Joseph, 1961)
• Never Go to Sea (London: Michael Joseph, 1963)
• All the Nice Girls (London: Michael Joseph, 1964)
• HMS Leviathan (London: Michael Joseph, 1967)
• The Fighting "Téméraire" (London: Michael Joseph, 1971)
• Ett av våra krigsskepp (London: Michael Joseph, 1975)
• Good Enough for Nelson (London: Michael Joseph, 1977)
• Hangarfartyg (London: Michael Joseph, 1980)
• The Good Ship Venus, eller The Lass who Loved a Sailor: a roman (London: Michael Joseph, 1984)
• A Drowning War: a roman (London: Michael Joseph, 1985)
• Polaris (London: Michael Joseph, 1989)
• The Night of the Scorpion (Sutton: Severn House, 1994)

Facklitteratur

• Freedom's Battle: The War at Sea 1939–1945: An Anthology of Personal Experience (London: Hutchinson, 1967)
• The Forgotten Fleet (London: Michael Joseph, 1969) [berättelse om den brittiska Stillahavsflottan ]
• HMS Campbeltown (USS Buchanan) (Windsor: Profile Publications, 1971) [Profil krigsskepp nr 5]
• The Little Wonder: historien om Festiniog Railway (London: Michael Joseph, 1975)
• Sir Walter Ralegh (London: Michael Joseph, 1975)
• Air Power at Sea 1939-1945 (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976)
• Hurra for the Life of a Sailor: Life on the Lower-deck of the Victorian Navy (London: Michael Joseph, 1977)
• Victoria Cross at Sea (London: Michael Joseph, 1978)
• War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor till Tokyo Bay (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1978)
• Sink the Haguro!: The Last Destroyer Action of the Second World War (London: Seeley, 1979)
• Hands to Action Stations!: Naval Poetry and Verse from World War Two (Denbigh: Bluejacket, 1980)
• Find, Fix and Strike!: Fleet Air Arm at War 1939-1945 (London: Batsford, 1980)
• Below the Belt: Novelty, Subterfuge and Surprise in Naval Warfare (London: Conway Maritime, 1981)
•   Jellicoe (London: Michael Joseph, 1981) ISBN 978-0718118136 [biografi om amiral Earl John Rushworth Jellicoe ]
• Kaptener och kungar: The Royal Family and the Royal Navy, 1901–1981 (Denbigh: Bluejacket, 1981)
• Convoy: The Defense of Sea Trade 1890-1980 (London: Michael Joseph, 1983)
•   The Death of the Scharnhorst (Chichester: Antony Bird, 1983) ISBN 0907319068 [förlisningen av Scharnhorst i slaget vid Nordkap ]
• The Little Wonder: 150 years of Festiniog Railway (reviderad upplaga) (London: Michael Joseph, 1986)
• Carrier Glorious: The Life & Death of an hangarfartyg (London: Leo Cooper, 1986)
• Air Power at Sea [1940 till idag] (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987)
• Warrior The First and the Last (London: Maritime Books, 1987)
• ULTRA at Sea (London: Leo Cooper, 1988)
• The Naval Heritage of Portsmouth (Southampton: Ensign, 1989)
• För dem i fara: Femtio år av Royal Navy Search and Rescue (London: Robert Hale, 1992)
• Ultra in the Pacific: How Breaking Japanese Codes & Cyphers Affected Naval Operations Against Japan 1941–45 (London: Leo Cooper, 1993)
• Signals from the Falklands: the Navy in the Falklands Conflict: An Anthology of Personal Experience (London: Leo Cooper, 1995)
• Cunningham (London: John Murray, 1998) [biografi om amiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham ]
• The Submariners: Life in British Submarines 1901–1999: An Anthology of Personal Experience (London: Constable, 1999)
• An Illustrated History of the Royal Navy (London: Salamander, 2000)

externa länkar

• "John Winton: dödsruna" . The Daily Telegraph . 3 maj 2001.