The Sea, War and Barbed Wire

A Story of Merchant Navy Men

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Stanley Algar was captain of the tanker Agnita during the Second World War and spent the early months of the conflict sailing between the Caribbean and West Africa before being captured. Making extensive use of his diaries, this volume recalls the four years he and his crew spent as prisoners of war, revealing the conditions they faced, what little information they could glean about the outside world, and his return home.

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