Neil Hanson - The Custom of the Sea

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Neil Hansonhas worked as a holiday-camp redcoat, run several art and photography galleries, travelled around the world twice, edited the Good Beer Guide and a sports newspaper, owned the highest pub in Britain, written for every British national newspaper and for media throughout the world. He has also written thirty books, some under his own name and others under various noms de plume.

He now lives in the Yorkshire Dales with his partner, Lynn, and children, Jack and Drew.

‘Neil Hanson is that rare beast — a popular historian who never talks down to his readers. Clearly and engagingly written, his book puts more academic historians to shame by discovering a big subject, investigating it thoroughly and drawing bold but far-reaching conclusions from it.’

‘Using first-hand witnesses plus government war records, Hanson draws a powerful picture of the impact of these first air raids.’

‘History invariably falls into two categories: academic and narrative… To marry the two is a rare art — and it is an art Neil Hanson has mastered… This is a compelling story compellingly told… Gripping.’

© Neil Hanson, 1999

Neil Hanson has asserted his rights under the Copyright, Design and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.

First published in 1999 by Doubleday.

This edition published in 2017 by Endeavour Press Ltd.