Twenty-Two Hundred Days to Pulo We: My Education in the Navy

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Category:	Biography
Author:	Jack Edwards
Publisher:	Melrose Books
Price:	£10.99
ISBN:	1-905226-39-X
Pages:	320
Reviewed in issue:	2

Twenty-Two Hundred Days to Pulo We is a hero’s memoir. It should be required reading for school-children. Never has a portrait of the Second World War been so personal and so historically objective at the same time.

The reader sees the war through the eyes of history and through the eyes of Jack Edwards. You’ll finish the book thinking, “If I could be an eighth of the person Jack Edwards is then I’ll be doing alright for myself”. The book contains photographs, technical drawings and bags of information about one man’s life at sea during the moment the world closed in on itself and each side picked up a weapon.

Rarely does one call a self published book superb. But rarely does one encounter a book of such quality by a man with such courage.

This is not just a book about military history. This is an account of one man’s journey into a strange new world at a time of uncertainty. An account that is very relevant today. All young people should read this book. Because if people read this book they’d realise that all of us are vulnerable to the bigger picture happening around us. If we all realised that there might be fewer wars.

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