“‘ He doesn't understand. The navy is my life. My only life, now. The war will not last for ever, but until it ends I shall stand in the line-of-battle as I have been entrusted to!’”

—  Douglas Reeman

For My Country's Freedom, Cap 13 "Loneliness"

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