John Winton


John Pratt, pen name John Winton was an English author and obituarist, following a career in the Royal Navy in which he rose to Lieutenant-Commander. He was born in London and served in the Korean War and during the Suez Crisis. Whilst still in the Navy, he wrote the comic novel We Joined the Navy and its sequels, featuring the character of "The Artful Bodger". Several other novels, and a number of non-fiction works on naval subjects, followed, including a biography of Admiral John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe. Pratt also served for 14 years as an obituarist for The Daily Telegraph.

Works

Fiction

  • We Joined the Navy
  • We Saw the Sea
  • Down the Hatch
  • Never Go to Sea
  • All the Nice Girls
  • HMS Leviathan
  • The Fighting "Téméraire"
  • One of our Warships
  • Good Enough for Nelson
  • Aircraft Carrier
  • The Good Ship Venus, or, The Lass who Loved a Sailor: a novel
  • A Drowning War: a novel
  • Polaris
  • ''The Night of the Scorpion''

    Non-fiction

  • Freedom's Battle: The War at Sea 1939–1945: An Anthology of Personal Experience
  • The Forgotten Fleet
  • HMS Campbeltown
  • The Little Wonder: the story of the Festiniog Railway
  • Sir Walter Ralegh
  • Air Power at Sea 1939-1945
  • Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor: Life on the Lower-deck of the Victorian Navy
  • The Victoria Cross at Sea
  • War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
  • Sink the Haguro!: The Last Destroyer Action of the Second World War
  • Hands to Action Stations!: Naval Poetry and Verse from World War Two
  • Find, Fix and Strike!: the Fleet Air Arm at War 1939-1945
  • Below the Belt: Novelty, Subterfuge and Surprise in Naval Warfare
  • Jellicoe
  • Captains and Kings: The Royal Family and the Royal Navy, 1901–1981
  • Convoy: The Defence of Sea Trade 1890-1980
  • The Death of the Scharnhorst
  • The Little Wonder: 150 years of Festiniog Railway
  • Carrier Glorious: The Life & Death of an Aircraft Carrier
  • Air Power at Sea
  • Warrior The First and the Last
  • ULTRA at Sea
  • The Naval Heritage of Portsmouth
  • For Those in Peril: Fifty Years of Royal Navy Search and Rescue
  • Ultra in the Pacific: How Breaking Japanese Codes & Cyphers Affected Naval Operations Against Japan 1941–45
  • Signals from the Falklands : the Navy in the Falklands Conflict: An Anthology of Personal Experience
  • Cunningham
  • The Submariners : Life in British Submarines 1901–1999: An Anthology of Personal Experience
  • ''An Illustrated History of the Royal Navy''