The Pride and the Anguish: a stirring naval action thriller set at the height of WW2 from Douglas Reeman, the all-time bestselling master storyteller of the sea

The Pride and the Anguish: a stirring naval action thriller set at the height of WW2 from Douglas Reeman, the all-time bestselling master storyteller of the sea

by Douglas Reeman (Author)

Synopsis

NOVEMBER 1941 Lieutenant Ralph Trewin, D.S.C., arrives at Singapore as second-in-command of the shallow-draught gunboat, H.M.S. Porcupine. To Trewin, still shocked from wounds received during the evacuation of Crete, the gunboat and her five elderly consorts seem to symbolise the ignorance and blind optimism he finds in Singapore. And the captain of the Porcupine is as unwilling as the rest to take heed of Trewin's alarm, for to him the gunboat represents his last chance. The following month, the Japanese invade Malaya. In three months Singapore, the impregnable fortress, knows the humiliation of surrender. Through the misery and despair of this bloody campaign Trewin and his captain are forced to draw on each other's beliefs and weaknesses, and together they weld the little gunboat into a symbol of bravery and pride.

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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 320
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 03 Oct 2013

ISBN 10: 0099591553
ISBN 13: 9780099591559
Book Overview: A novel from the bestselling master storyteller of the sea.

Author Bio
Douglas Reeman did convoy duty in the navy in the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the North Sea. He has written over thirty novels under his own name and more than twenty bestselling historical novels featuring Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.