Naval Historical Foundation featured a detailed review of Dennis McDonald’s book All at Sea in Arctic Waters on their website www.navyhistory.org. The review was written by a member of the foundation, Charles Kolb, PhD. Along with a detailed synopsis of the book, Charles shared his reason for selecting this book for review which is the expertise of author as a telegraphist whose duty involved intercepting shortwave radio messages from U-boats to their bases in Germany or Occupied Europe. The review articulately explained the aim of the author for writing this book.

The book All at Sea in Arctic Waters is about the experiences of the author on the Murmansk Arctic convoys of WWII. It is a unique book that mostly shares the amusing accounts of life aboard a ship at war. The book shows the everyday life of ordinary ratings and their tasks when they were not fighting. The author shared about his work during his time aboard ship which involved intercepting messages from and locating German submarines by shortwave radio direction finding. It’s a captivating read for all those interested in learning about the history of life during WWII on small RN ships.

The author Dennis McDonald volunteered for the Royal Navy during World War II and chose telegraphy as his duty. McDonald was a crew member to a destroyer which was assigned to convoys between Halifax, Nova Scotia and Murmansk, Russia. The service life was not easy but the author was lucky enough to enjoy the amusing side of it as well which he mentioned in his book. The author’s aim for writing this book was to share the problems faced by the individuals on board which were not documented elsewhere.

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