This autobiography includes chapters on training in the wartime RAF in Hollywood, hob-nobbing with the stars, working closely with Mountbatten on the biography of his parents and travelling with Mountbatten and Prince Philip in the Royal Yacht "Britannia", a stint in publishing and voyaging as far afield as the sub-Antarctic to North Alaska, Pitcairn Island to the Kalahari Desert, to ferret out material for his biographies and maritime histories.;The author also wrote "Battle of Britain: a Jubilee History" and he wrote "Bless Our Ship" together with Denis Richards.
- ISBN10 0340552212
- ISBN13 9780340552216
- Publish Date 31 December 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English