| Summary: | Through a close study of seafarers' behavior and attitudes, Lane suggests that few were interested in the politics of WWII and that the British, far from being united in a "people's war", actually became more divided. Merchant seamen suffered proportionately greater losses than any of the armed services, but officers and crews were as much at odds as they'd always been. Fines and imprisonment were on a scale without peacetime parallel, and Indian and Chinese seamen, one quarter of all crews, engaged in strikes and mass desertions. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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