A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War Collection_Astronomy Photographer of the Year I was keeping watch at

I was keeping watch at night as Third Officer on the bridge of the ship

It is inscribed on the back 'A present from ye Royal Family'

Watery hopes

far from being a force of nature

Although acquired as a portrait of Nevil Maskelyne

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War Collection_Astronomy Photographer of the Year I was keeping watch at1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U boats. Britain is only weeks away from starvation and with that, crushing defeat. In the first week of 1942 a group of unlikely heroes a retired naval captain and a clutch of brilliant young women gather to form a secret strategy unit. On the top floor of a bomb bruised HQ in Liverpool,