A Sailor's Stories: GUIDE for new Readers and Returnees.

Monday, February 15, 2010

GUIDE for new Readers and Returnees.

The Second Printing of A SALOR'S STORIES is now being sold in most Halifax/Dartmouth Bookstores and on my new website. It is highly recommended by those who have read it. It is also available in the Public Library for those patient enough to get in line. It is a form of Memoir. I suggest you buy it because it invites more than one reading.
Clues to the content of A SAILOR'SSRORIES aand also clues to the content of my "Novel in progress" are included in this BLOG,.You can find them by following "Older posts" and the archives anhd using the back button each time. In addition, I provided links to my other BLOG, "Galley Yarns," where I put srories that I omitted from my books. Also, I included a link to my website at arlommoen.com.

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Jan MorrisonFebruary 17, 2010 at 9:07 AM
I'm sorry I'm not a new reader just a pesky old old reader! Glad to see all the action on your site.
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ShawnJune 26, 2010 at 7:11 PM
Hi,
I bought your book as a Fathers' Day gift for my father - who had been a merchant mariner. He feels certain that he knows one of the fellows in the cover photo of your book.

May I inquire whether you recall if Howard (Butch) Andrews is one of the fellows (standing on the left)?
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What's this book about?

AUTHOR’S NOTES:
I want to make it perfectly clear; the stories in stage one of this book
are unadorned fact, as true as my memory permits. These accounts constitute Naval History since they detail my servicein the destroyer, H.M.C.S. St. Laurent, when it was an escort for the first wartime
convoy leaving Bedford Basin in September1939; my service in the destroyer, H.M.C.S. Saguenay, when she was torpedoed in December 1940; my service in H.M.S.Drake during the Plymouth Blitz and my service in the battleship H.M.S. Rodney during its bombardment of the German battleship, Bismark in May 1941.They are the reason
I struggled to publish this book. Too many stories are being lost
as Naval veterans die off: Let these not be among them. The stories in stage two are creative factual accounts of the postwarNavy.
Stage three stories are vehicles to tell what it was like growing up in small town Saskatchewan in the 1930s. Stage four is the fictional product of my slightly deranged mind.

Others said :
Moen, a veteran of WW2 and a long time serviceman decided in his eighties he should write a book and A Sailor’s Stories is the result.
On December 1,1940, the HMCS Saguenay was torpedoed 300 miles west of Ireland by the Italian submarine Argo while escorting Convoy HG-47, and managed to return to Barrow-in-Furness largely under her own power, but with 19 dead and without most of her bow. Arlo Moen was there. He was also on board the H.M.S. Rodney, one of the ships that gave the famous last chase to the German battleship, the Bismarck. A Sailor’s Stories tells of the war and the times after the war when his ship visited Havana in the heady days of the fifties. Reading this book will make you think you are sitting with Arlo, knocking back a few rum and cokes while the stories flow.
Moen shares, as well, his life as a young boy in Outback, Sask during the depression. His stories about pest houses, travelling exhibitions, and the politics of ladies’ society clubs will bring that time alive.

A Sailor's Stories

Monday, February 15, 2010

GUIDE for new Readers and Returnees.

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