Tales of Enticement

     Volume I

A selection of twenty-five short stories of various genres.

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Tales of Enticement

Volume II

A further selection of twenty-five short stories of various genres.

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THIS BLOOD RED SEA

 The biography of Ronald Burns, who served as a Royal Navy DEMS gunner aboard merchant ships during WWII. His first ship, SS Empire Drum was torpedoed in the Atlantic and he and his fellow shipmates spent thirteen days adrift in a lifeboat. Shortly after being rescued, he served aboard rescue ship, SS Rathlin, which sailed with the infamous convoy, PQ17 to Russia. What Ron witnessed was carnage and devastation beyond belief. This is his story.

 Reviews

*****  True story By tom elder on July 11, 2015

 A truly great true story. THIS BLOOD RED SEA. I was interested in this book initially as my father spent 50 years as a merchant seaman, through the war as well. This story is based on a true story about the war years, and from the times of WW11. Ronald Burns is who this book is based on. This is his views of the convoy and it makes for scary reading. Very brave guys that were usually treated as inferior troops because they were the merchant navy, but still gave everything for the cause. This is a hard story of guys young and old giving everything to help. The conditions were far from ideal but they got on with it. I would say we are all indebted to themtrue story. 5*. 11 July 2015.

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Very Informative, 2 Jun. 2014

 * By Suzanne Steele 2 June, 2014

"I'm a published author who is also a voracious reader."

 This review is from: This Blood Red Sea (Kindle Edition)

This biography of Ronald Burns, who served as a WWII Royal Navy Dems gunner, gives an insight into the appalling and treacherous conditions these heroic men had to endure. An educative and absorbing read. This was so good. *I received a free copy of this book for a fair and honest review

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Five Stars, 30 July 2015 By Stuart P.

This review is from: THIS BLOOD RED SEA (Paperback)

fantastic book a must read.

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Jan. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 February 2017

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Mathew Taylor
War at the micro level. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 March 2023
Personal involvement disclaimer: my grandmother lived down the street from this book's subject, Ron Burns.

This book captures very well Ron's experiences of World War Two, which provide his unique perspective on the conflict in a manner similar to Stuart Hill's "By Tank into Normandy", reminding the reader that while conflicts are vast, the people who make it up are small, rendering the fortitude and courage shown in the face of conflict heroic. Ron's experiences are fine examples of this, the horrors of being adrift upon a lifeboat - a struggle as old as mankind's sea-going - in particular speak to his fortitude.

The book has some small failings, which are easily overlooked - the author's writing experience is not biographical or historical, which shows through here and there, leaving some passages without any anchoring context. The author does however do a very good job covering the disasterous Convoy PQ 17, and this book can sit comfortably alongside much more academic (and impersonal) works as a useful 'micro' view to the macro.

Overall, this is a valuable book, securing the memory of one of the millions whose bravery and travails left us the world we enjoy today. Future historians will be glad to know that Ron Burns was there on SS Rathlin, working the anti-aircraft guns. As should we all.

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