Simon Vance
Author
Language
English
Description
Crime, mystery, adventure, thrills-all are to be found in this short-story collection commencing with "The Ship That Died of Shame," in which a former navy gunboat is used for smuggling by ex-servicemen down on their luck in postwar society. In "The Reconciliation," a husband employs private detectives but then changes his mind about a divorce once their findings are revealed. In "Licensed to Kill," a honeymoon soon turns into a manhunt when a former...
Author
Language
English
Description
In "HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbor," an old sloop, homeward bound, is torpedoed, leaving her guns out of action, more than three quarters of her crew dead, and radio contact impossible. But her valiant captain steadfastly refuses to surrender his ship. In "Leave Cancelled," an army officer and his young wife concentrate their passionate love into twenty-four hours, knowing that it might be their last chance. And in "Heavy Rescue," an old soldier,...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Based on the author's own vivid experiences, The Cruel Sea is the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys during World War II.
Darting back and forth across the icy North Atlantic, Compass Rose played a deadly cat-and-mouse game with packs of German U-boats lying in wait beneath the ocean waves.
Packed with tension and vivid descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts,
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