H.M.S Saracen
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4.4 • 23 Ratings
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
MALTA 1941.
To most people HMS Saracen is just an ugly, obsolete ship with an equally ugly recent history: her last commander is due for court-martial after shelling the troops he was sent to protect.
But to Captain Richard Chesnaye, she brings back memories - memories of the First World War when he and the old monitor went through the Gallipoli campaign together. It seems that captain and ship are both past their best. But as the war enters a new phase Chesnaye senses the possibility of a fresh, significant role - for him and the Saracen.
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A classic tale of naval warfare from Douglas Reeman, the all-time bestselling master of naval fiction, who served with the Royal Navy on convoy duty in the Atlantic, the Arctic and the North Sea. He has written dozens of naval books under his own name and the pseudonym Alexander Kent, including the famous Richard Bolitho books set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Customer Reviews
Unforgettable
This was my first Douglas Reeman novel read as a book hungry teenager almost 40 years ago. For the next 7 or 8 years I read all his books available then in print. I soon came to recognise the then oft repeated Reeman formula in so much of his work, and eventually moved on to more varied and less predictable authors. HMS Saracen, however, was a one of a kind story. I fell in love with the book aged 13 and found I still have a bit of a thing for it even after all this time.