Sadism, songs and stolen liberty / Stephen Mann.

"Where in the world could a fourteen year old child apply for a job which they start at the age of fifteen with no way of leaving until they are twenty-seven years old? Where in the world? Great Britain. Stephen Mann writes of his experience as a boy entrant to the British Royal Navy, his despair, then anger, at finding that he could not escape from a world of arbitrary rules and personal violence ... This book describes Stephen's growing political awareness and his opposition to the war in Vietnam and also charts the battle to make a barbaric system of virtually press ganging children for 12 years, become a thing of the past."--