Steaming Light – A Memoir of Commander John C. Pearson OBE, RN Clothing Hugh Sebag-Montefiore can at last

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore can at last shine a revealing light on this extraordinary tale that oscillates between the sailors’ eye view on the front line

So when the convoy left Loch Ewe on 2 September 1942 the stakes could not have been higher

its real impact on the Soviet war effort

A Seaman's Pocket-Book

which had to be lit

Steaming Light – A Memoir of Commander John C. Pearson OBE, RN Clothing Hugh Sebag-Montefiore can at lastCommander John Cox Pearson a shy rather serious young man lived through most of the tumultuous twentieth century. As a naval officer he saw from sometimes uncomfortably close range the excesses of war and astounding technological advances witnessing huge shifts in the geo political landscape. He also had an extraordinary life in terms of the people he encountered and the places he found himself in over early eighty years. He met Noel Coward, Ian