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Edward Young


Born
in Trinidad and Tobago
November 17, 1913

Died
January 28, 2003

Genre
Memoir, Nonfiction


SEE http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obitu...
AND
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2003/f...

ALSO From the back cover of the 1954 Penguin edition of “One of Our Submarines”:

Edward Young was born in Trinidad, West Indies, in 1913. He was educated at Highgate and at 18 took a job as office boy in a publishing firm, where he gradually became interested in printing and design. When Penguin Books started in 1935 he was production manager, he designed the cover, and drew the Penguin device. In April 1940 he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (R.N.V.R.), and four months later entered the submarine service, and was the first R.N.V.R. officer to command an operational submarine. After the War he joined Rupert Hart-Davis, who was then about to start ...more

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Average rating: 4.32 · 850 ratings · 34 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
One of Our Submarines
4.33 avg rating — 837 ratings — published 1952 — 29 editions
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The Fifth Passenger
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Look at Lighthouses
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Look at submarines
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“sight of a lone submarine on the surface, even when air protection was supposedly in force for its benefit, was”
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“been lowered slightly because”
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“short and stocky, with fair hair, a ruddy complexion and”
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