Commanding Canadians - The Second World War Diaries of A.F.C. Layard

Michael Whitby is Senior Naval Historian at the Canadian National Defence Headquarters.

About the author

Michael Whitby is Senior Naval Historian at the Canadian National Defence Headquarters.

Summary

Commander A.F.C. Layard, RN, wrote almost daily in his diary from 1913 until 1947. The pivotal 1943-45 years of this edited volume offer an extraordinarily full and honest chronicle, revealing Layard’s preoccupations, both with the daily details and with the strain and responsibility of wartime command at sea.

Product details

• Authors: A. F. C. Layard, A.F.C. Layard, Michael Whitby
• Assisted by: Michael Whitby (Editor)
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2005
• EAN: 9780774811934
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1193-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 680 g
• Illustrations: 30 b&w illustrations, 3 maps
• Series: Studies in Canadian Military History; Studies in Canadian Military H; Studies in Canadian Military History
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies