C.S. Forester
The Ship
- ISBN 13:
- 9780241955482
- author:
- C.S. Forester
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Pages:
- 256
- Dimensions:
- 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm
- Genre:
- Books
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
A vital convoy can break Mussolini's stranglehold on Malta, but it is intercepted in the Mediterranean by enemy warships. Five light British cruisers are left to beat back the armed might of the Italian battle fleet. C.S. Forester takes us aboard HMS Artemis as she steams into battle against overwhelming odds. We get inside the heads of the ship's men, from the Captain on his bridge down to the lowest engine room rating, as they struggle over one long and terrifying afternoon to do their duty. The story brilliantly recounts life aboard a British warship during some of the darkest days of World War II, capturing the urgency of the blazing guns, the thunderous rupturing of deck plates, and the screams of pain and the shouts of triumph.
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