Gathering Moss

An atmospheric, mainly biographical story set in the 1930s-1950s, of a British Naval Officers determination to foil the enemys wartime dive bombing of our fleet. Hundreds of lives were saved by his suggested adaptation of the big, anti-aircraft barrage balloons which were flown above cities and other land based targets, to be specially tailored for the defence of shipping as well. Combined with this moving story is a colourful account of family life at that time, and it was not very long after the ending of the Second World War that Commander Basher Boorman began to find himself involved in certain minor skirmishes on his own