Sally Douglas, now retired and living in Cornwall, has led an adventurous life in many and varied parts of England, as well as abroad. The daughter of a Naval Commander to whom she was very close, Sally has woven this mainly biographical, fast moving story set in the turbulent 1930s–1950s period of both their lives. Sometimes truth really can be stranger than fiction.
An atmospheric, mainly biographical story set in the 1930s-1950s, of a British Naval Officer's determination to foil the enemy's wartime dive bombing of our fleet. Hundreds of lives were saved by his suggested adaptation of the big, anti-aircraft barrage balloons which were flown above citie...
