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Send a Gunboat
Douglas Reeman
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Description for Send a Gunboat
Paperback. When the offshore island of Santu is threatened with invasion from the Chinese mainland, disgraced Commander Justin Rolfe and the condemned gunboat HMS "Wagtail", are ordered to bring out the small British community. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FJM; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 17. Weight in Grams: 142.
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 be brought out and Commander Rolfe and the Wagtail are ordered to the island. The job is regarded with sullen resentment by his crew, ... Read more
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 be brought out and Commander Rolfe and the Wagtail are ordered to the island. The job is regarded with sullen resentment by his crew, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099070603
SKU
V9780099070603
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About 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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