Geoffrey Bennett (1909–1983)
Author of Naval Battles of the First World War
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Also used the alias "Sea-Lion". Please don't separate that out.
Works by Geoffrey Bennett
The Pepper Trader: True Tales of the German East Asia Squadron and the Man who Cast them in Stone (2006) 4 copies, 1 review
The Falkland Island Mystery 3 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Bennett, Geoffrey Martin
- Other names
- Sea-Lion
- Birthdate
- 1909-06-07
- Date of death
- 1983-09-05
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- England
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
- Place of death
- Ludlow, Shropshire, England
- Places of residence
- Ludlow, Shropshire, England
London, England, UK - Education
- Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (1923-26), (attended)
Royal Naval College, Greenwich (1929-30) - Organizations
- Royal Historical Society (fellow)
Royal United Services Institute
Institute for Defence Studies
Naval Records Society (fellow)
Royal Navy - Awards and honors
- Military: Distinguished Service Cross, 1943; . Civilian: Gold Medal and Trench-Gascoigne Prize of Royal United Service Institution, 1935, 1941, 1942 [1943, 1972, 1935, 1941, 1942]
Order of Orange Nassau (1972) - Short biography
- Associated with the Royal Navy from 1923 until 1958, author Geoffrey Bennett was a signal officer in the South Atlantic and Mediterranean stations from 1940 until 1945, when he was appointed to a post in the British Admiralty. Bennett also served as captain of the H.M.S. St. Brides' Bay in 1948 and as a naval attache in Moscow, Warsaw, and Helsinki from 1953, the year he attained the rank of captain, until 1955. Bennett wrote several books drawing on his military knowledge, including Nelson the Commander and Battle of Trafalgar. Under the pseudonym Sea-Lion, the captain published numerous novels, among them This Creeping Evil, Wrecked on the Goodwins, and Death in the Dog Watches. Bennett also wrote several radio plays for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC-Radio).
- Disambiguation notice
- Also used the alias "Sea-Lion". Please don't separate that out.
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Reviews
The Pepper Trader: True Tales of the German East… by Geoffrey Bennett
A charming book. The structure is somewhat diffuse, and there is an extended reference ti a Serpent Eagle, a raptor of the east Indies, but the author does juggle reasonably well between his own Indonesian experience, the involvement of the Netherlands with the current Indonesia, and a biography of the Pepper trader Emil Helfferich, a man who became a Nazi in the WWII. Bennett, who is a canadian geophysicist, does not seem to ave gone on to what would be an interesting volume two. Pity.
Wonderful little book about the post World war one conflicts in the "newly freed"" Baltic region. Almost belongs in Oxfords Greater war series as Bennett clearly explains that the war to end all wars didn't actually end.
Geoffrey Bennett was a naval officer whose career had begun prior to WWII. Though only eight at the time of the Battle of Jutland, he was born into a naval family, and spent the bulk of his wartime career as a signals officer, eventually commanding a "Bay" Class Corvette in the latter days of WWII. His account of Jutland has had the compliment of being translated into German. The difficulties of the RN's signal service during the encounter receive adequate discussion in this competent book. I read a 1964 initial printing copy.… (more)
This book was first published by Batsford in 1968. It has been reprinted at least three times since. A readable Account of the Royal Navy's War in the North Sea, Outer Oceans and the Mediterranean. The Baltic actions are largely ignored, but the maps and prose are adequate. Do not look for controversy in these pages, but it is a basic account.
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