J. E. Macdonnell

The Challenge (A World War 2 Naval Adventure) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Stand-by torpedo attack!" the order rapped out.
Not more than half a mile away, bulking huge at that close range, came the enemy cruiser.
"Port thirty," he snapped down the voice pipe, and over his shoulder at the torpedo officer "Fire when your sights come on!" Torps was crouched over his pronged sight. His voice came crisp and clear: "Fire one, fire two, fire three, fire four ..."
"Midships!" the captain roared.
The wheel came off her, and at once she heaved up from her acute lean. Then Pelican's ancient guns snapped their challenge at the grey monster racing alongside them.
And, clear in the silence between broadsides, a sharp buzzing from the engine-room voice pipe. Pilot answered it and Dutchy Holland heard the chief's voice from where he stood.
"Bridge. That bloody bearing's gone. I've got to shut down on the starb'd engine."
Pilot stared at Holland and the captain raised his hand in acknowledgement. He did not speak: he could not speak. There was nothing to say.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Piccadilly
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798224823352
• Artikelnr.: 75908157

Autorenporträt

JAMES EDMOND MACDONNELL was born in 1917 in Mackay, Queensland and became one of Australia's most prolific writers. As a boy, he became determined to go to sea and read every seafaring book he could find. At age 13, while his family was still asleep, he took his brother's bike and rode eighty miles from his home town to Brisbane in an attempt to see ships and the sea. Fortunately, he was found and returned to his family. He attended the Toowoomba Grammar School from 1931 to 1932. He served in the Royal Australian Navy for fourteen years, joining at age 17, advancing through all lower deck ranks and reaching the rank of commissioned gunnery officer. He began writing books while still in active service.

Macdonnell wrote stories for The Bulletin under the pseudonym "Macnell" and from 1948 to 1956 he was a member of The Bulletin staff. His first book, Fleet Destroyer a collection of stories about life on the small ships was published by The Book Depot, Melbourne, in 1945. Macdonnell began writing full-time for Horwitz in 1956, writing an average of a dozen books a year.

After leaving the navy, Macdonnell lived in St. Ives, Sydney and pursued his writing career. In 1988, he retired to Buderim on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. He died peacefully in his sleep at a Buderim hospital in 2002. He is survived by his children Beth, Jane and Peter.

Macdonnell's naval stories feature several recurring characters Captain "Dutchy" Holland, D.S.O., Captain Peter Bentley, V.C., Captain Bruce Sainsbury, V.C., Jim Brady, and Lieutenant Commander Robert Randall.