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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Douglas Reeman
Reissued to mark the fortieth anniversary of its first publication, the debut maritime novel from the author of WINGED ESCORT. During the Second World War, a fleet of amateur sailors…
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Yet even she was needed to protect the vital Atlantic sea lanes.Commander Lindsay, her new captain, had to work desperately to mould the ship’s company - raw recruits and old…
With the Allies poised for the invasion of Italy, the Germans hold a vital card: a floating dock, the only one in the Adriatic large enough to take a major…
But it is the summer of 1944, and on every front the war is going badly for Germany. When the roder comes to leave the Baltic to attack and destroy…
1943, and Captain Mike Blackwood, Royal Marine Commando, is a survivor. Young, toughened, and tried in the hellish Burma sun, he labours beneath the weight of tradition and the glorious…
The old submarine-chaser USS Hibiscus, re-fitting in Hong Kong dockyard before being handed over to the Nationalist Chinese, is suddenly ordered to the desolate island group of Payenhau.
Indo-China 1941, and cruising somewhere off Saigon is the world’s largest, most dangerous submarine, the French Soufriere. The British navy must capture and use her in the defence of Singapore…
While the politicians haggle over a situation which could hold the seeds of full-scale war, Commander Jermain must keep his faith in himself and in his new ship’s potential -…
Twenty-five years ago HMS Terrapin was part of a crack hunter/killer group in the Battle of the Atlantic. Now she is working out her last commission in the Gulf of…
The Volunteers were the men and women of the Royal Navy’s Special Operations units, carrying out lightning raids on hostile coasts. Each was hand-picked for their individual skills, and all…
In 25 years of continuous service, the eight destroyers had seen every kind of action at sea. They called them the Scrapyard Flotilla. Now they were going to be used…
It was an age of Empire, an age of contrast, and an age of dramatic change - and one which would determine the destinies of nations as well as of…
________________________________ The Battlecruiser. In its day, this class of ship was considered one of the great triumphs of the Royal Navy, as swift as a destroyer but packing a deadly…
