Send a Gunboat

By:

Douglas Reeman

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The Modern Naval Fiction Library

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The orders from the Admiralty to the Captain were explicit. He was to take his ship to the small island of Santu, which lay under threat of invasion from the Communist mainland of China, and evacuate the British colony there. The ship, however, was the flat-bottomed, antiquated River gunboat H. M. S. Wagtail, waiting in a Hong Kong harbor for the disgrace of the breaker's hammer to overtake her. Her captain, Justin Rolfe, embittered by the verdict of a court-martial, knew that the assignment offered more than escape from misery and humiliation—it was a reprieve for himself and his ship.

Author Biography:

Douglas Reeman served in the Royal Navy in the Atlantic and Mediterranean campaigns during World War Two. He has written 37 novels under his own name as well as 28 novels featuring Richard and Adam Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.

Release date NZ

January 1st, 2017

Author

Douglas Reeman

Series

The Modern Naval Fiction Library

Pages

288

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

140x216x21

ISBN-13

9781590137291

Product ID

25042750

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