Send a Gunboat by Douglas Reeman - ISBN: 9780099070603
Paperback
HMS Wagtail is a river gunboat, a ship seemingly at the end of her useful life, lying in a Hong Kong dockyard awaiting her last summons to the breakers’ yard. Commander Justin Rolfe is also seemingly at the end of his useful naval life, an embittered man, brooding and angry from a court-martial verdict.

Send a Gunboat

World War 2 Naval Fiction

  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    21 April 1993

Summary

A classic of naval fiction from ‘the master of the modern sea story’.HMS Wagtail is a river gunboat, a ship seemingly at the end of her useful life, lying in a Hong Kong dockyard awaiting her last summons to the breakers’ yard. Commander Justin Rolfe is also seemingly at the end of his useful naval life, an embittered man, brooding and angry from a court-martial verdict. Then the offshore island of Santu is threatened with invasion from the Chinese mainland. The small British community must…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099070603
ISBN-10:009907060X
Author:Douglas Reeman
Publisher:Cornerstone
Imprint:Arrow Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:21 April 1993
Weight:139g
Dimensions:178mm x 110mm x 16mm
About The Author

Douglas Reeman

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 best-selling historical novels featuring Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.

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