Submariner

by Alexander Fullerton (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $15.21

  Malta, 1942. Lieutenant Mike Nicholson commands Ursa, one of the 10th Submarine Flotilla's boats who, in their time, destroyed more than a million tons of war supplies shipped from Italian ports to Rommel's Afrika Korps in the Western Desert. German Intelligence has recently warned Berlin that unless drastic measures are undertaken, the Mediterranean and Middle East will be lost to them. But Ursa is a lucky submarine, and Mike is the flotilla's top scorer. He also has problems of a more personal nature: before leaving England about two years ago he was heavily involved in an affair with the wife of another submariner, who's now bringing his own new U-class boat, Unsung, to the flotilla ...

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $3.47

  Lieutenant Mike Nicholson is operating out of Malta. Captaining the submarine Ursa, he's part of the fleet deputed to disrupt the flow of war supplies from Italian ports to Rommel's Afrika Korps. Although Ursa is small, under armed and frustratingly slow, she succeeds, on her seventeenth Mediterranean cruise, in sinking a German tank-transporter. That triumph puts Mike at the top of the league - he has now sunk more tonnage than any of his contemporaries. Promotion to Lieutenant-Commander, at the age of 28, is now on the cards. All he has to do is adhere to two rules: to stay alive, and to keep his nose clean.