Captain Alan William Frank Sutton's Biography

Captain Alan William Frank Sutton's enthralling biography starts when, as a young midshipman, he was in command of a small rowing cutter returning a potentially mutinous crew to the battle-cruiser HMS Repulse in which he served. Amazingly, it ends in the open cockpit of a Fairy Swordfish torpedo bomber during the legendary night attack which destroyed the Italian fleet at Taranto.

This biography has been written with the full cooperation of Captain Sutton who has given the author every detail of his lengthy naval ship and airborne career during World War II.