Bomb Alley : Interview With Book Author David Yates of HMS Antrim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f4nUnAmckk

Peter Robbins

The author has an easy writing style, a fascination for detail and the ability to describe the work-a-day life aboard ANTRIM in an interesting and almost conversational style. Most books about the Royal Navy are written by officers but this lower deck account offers an entirely different perspective which is worth its place on the bookshelf. A very good read.

World Ship Society

Both highly amusing and interesting reading, especially when you contrast it with how we live and operate as a Navy in these times and how peoples values have changed. It is a warts and all account in many respects from a view point you don’t often get to hear and I think is this books unique selling point – there aren’t many similar books that are so honest about fudging accounts, nicking beer and stashing it in trunking and the like, equally there aren’t that many books where the author is so honest about the pressures they faced and their emotions as they prepare to experience modern warfare stuck in the bowels of a warship, or how something as simple as weeks old mail can set the chin wobbling.

In summary a good read, from a fresh perspective. This is easily more digestible than the long and overly detailed tomes produced by rafts of Senior Officers but is no less relevant and entertaining.

I give this book 4 out of 5!

navynet.co.uk (wave_dodger)

a no-holds barred account

Wigan Evening Post - 25th October 2008

a gripping tale of heroism and raw adventure

Lancashire Evening Post and Lancashire Evening Post Limited