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Chariots of the Sea by Pamela Mitchell
Chariots of the Sea by Pamela Mitchell
Many of the Royal Navy's charioteers - the human torpedoes - of World War Two are no longer with us, but Pamela Mitchell, in her latest book Chariots of the Sea, has made sure that we can still read about what really happened in the chariot-riders' own words.
She has based her book on the unpublished memoirs of Petty Officer Sid Woollcott (who died in 1993) and others who rode beneath the waves.
The book covers the underwater war from the very first chariot dive (really a log of wood with air tanks attached) in the Haslar ship model testing tank at Gosport in 1942, to the last chariot operations, sinking Japanese ships at Phuket in the Far East close to the end of the war.
Kendall McDonald
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Chariots of the Sea by Pamela Mitchell. Richard Netherwood (01590 673171). Softback 48pp, £14.95
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