Salt in our wounds

A bare, brief account of the terrifying experience endured by a handful of men who survived six weeks in an open boat after their oil tanker had been sunk by a Japanese submarine on a wartime crossing from Australia to Persia. The reader is not spared a single, brutal detail, from the deliberate machine- gunning of the tanker's crew as they were swimming towards the lifeboats, to the ultimate killing of the ship's white cat- crazed after three we...