micrummey's review against another edition
3.0
The biography of Edward Pellow who spent most of his life at sea battling Britain's enemies. The first part of the book of Pellow's early life is the more interesting and the author's writing style is that of a boys' own adventure.
As Pellow is promoted and his life becomes more political the writing style becomes a dull gray and it felt more as if I was reading a university set text.
As a character Taylor manages to show how Pellow cared about his crew but was still not bothered about a bit of nepotism as his sons prospered in the navy also.
We don't get a full picture about his family despite plenty of documents being available and it makes you think what was in the family papers destroyed by his wife Susan.
This is a problem with history, we never get a full picture and hence we question, what is the real truth?
As Pellow is promoted and his life becomes more political the writing style becomes a dull gray and it felt more as if I was reading a university set text.
As a character Taylor manages to show how Pellow cared about his crew but was still not bothered about a bit of nepotism as his sons prospered in the navy also.
We don't get a full picture about his family despite plenty of documents being available and it makes you think what was in the family papers destroyed by his wife Susan.
This is a problem with history, we never get a full picture and hence we question, what is the real truth?
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