Alexander Kent

With All Despatch

(The Richard Bolitho adventures: 10): more scintillating naval action from the master storyteller of the sea

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Produktbeschreibung

As the clouds of war begin to rise once more over the Channel, he has no choice but to accept an appointment to the Nore. With his small flotilla of three topsail cutters Bolitho sets out to search the coast for seamen who have fled the harsh discipline of His Majesty's Navy for the more tempting rewards of smuggling.

Produktdetails

• Richard Bolitho
• Verlag: Cornerstone
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 244g
• ISBN-13: 9780099591627
• ISBN-10: 0099591626
• Artikelnr.: 40564700

Autorenporträt

Alexander Kent's great interest in the ships and men of the eighteenth century navy was aroused when he was still at school. Although he attended fleet reviews and explored modern warships and dockyards with his father, he found that the great days of square riggers and battles at close quarters captured his imagination. H.M.S. Victory, Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, was always high on his list of regular visits. He served in the Royal Navy as a young man, and saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic and other major theatres of war, but his first love of the great days of sail remained unshaken. Now firmly established as a leading writer of authentic sea stories, he was the author of twenty-eight acclaimed books featuring Richard Bolitho. Under his own name, Douglas Reeman, and in the course of a career spanning forty-five years, he wrote over thirty novels and two non-fiction books. He died in January 2017.