A Touching Comment

The book….

….and the dedication.

Several posts ago I wrote about my recent acquisition of what was very much a ‘grail’ book for me. North of Gallipoli by the late George Nekrasov (Cmdr, RAN Retd) has the distinction of being probably the only easily available account of the operations of the Russian Black Sea fleet during WW1. The copy I acquired was from an estate sale in Australia and was not signed by the author but was also dedicated to another sadly departed naval historian - Gary Staff, an author of whom I have a couple of titles in my own collection. the book was embossed with the stamp “Library of Gary Staff”.

One of the titles in my collection by Gary Staff. It is a cracking read with plenty of ideas for scenarios

As previously mentioned I was delighted to have acquired North of Gallipoli - and at a very reasonable price - and was even more pleased to receive the following comment to my previous post.

“Hi David. I'm very happy to hear that this copy of Dad's book is in good hands and appreciated. Gary Staff was a close friend to him. All the best.

Alex Nekrasov.”

Call me a sentimental old fool, but I was touched by that post and am now even more determined to do something that would honour both the memory of George Nekrasov and of Gary Staff. 

Now, where did I put my copy of the Navwar catalogue?….