Killing Ground

Killing Ground

by Douglas Reeman (Author)

Synopsis

The Western Ocean 1942.

From the bridge of HMS Gladiator, Lieutenant-Commander David Howard's orders were chillingly clear. There could be no mercy.

To the men who fought to protect the vital, threatened Merchat Navy convoys in the Western Approaches, the Battle of the Atlantic was a full-scale war.

A relentless, savage war against an ever-present enemy and a violent sea - in an arena known only to its embittered survivors as the killing ground.

HMS Gladiator was part of that war. An ordinary, hard-worked destroyer and her company of men. Fighting for survival in a war with no rules...

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Published: 01 Jun 1991

ISBN 10: 0434626384
ISBN 13: 9780434626380
Book Overview: The bestselling novel from the 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.