1: Badge of Glory

1st. 1982 Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Limited an imprint of Hutchinson Publishing Group London ISBN 0 09 150470 8

A blue cloth bound book with silver lettering to the spine in Very Good Plus condition in a Very Good Plus unclipped dust wrapper.

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The author

Douglas Reeman joined the Navy in 1941. He did convoy duty in the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the North Sea, and later served in motor torpedo boats. As he says, `I am always asked to account for the perennial appeal of the sea story, and its enduring interest for people of so many nationalities and cultures. It would seem that the eternal and sometimes elusive triangle of man, ship and ocean, particularly under the stress of war, produces the best qualities of courage and compassion, irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the conflict...The sea has no understanding of righteous or unjust causes. It is the common enemy, respected by all who serve on it, ignored at their peril.'

Blurb

Badge of Glory

Internationally famous for his novels of World War II, Douglas Reeman also has a huge world following as Alexander Kent for his novels of the 19th-century navy — the Richard Bolitho books. Now he has extended his remarkable talents as a storyteller in a colourful and dramatic new saga spanning 150 years, about a seafaring family called the Blackwoods and the service in which successive generations make their career — the Royal Marines.
Badge of Glory, the first novel in the series, opens in August 1850, when Captain Philip Blackwood rejoins his ship, HMS Audacious. It is peacetime and although sometimes engaged in small overseas campaigns the world's mightiest navy has settled into a routine of tradition and ceremonial. With the coming of the steam age many younger officers are pressing for change and modernisation whereas their superiors for the most part see coal-fired ships as a challenge to their own power.
Blackwood soon discovers that he is about to get all the action he needs as the squadron's new admiral receives orders to sail to West Africa and stamp out the remaining strongholds of slavery. Blackwood is also made to realize that there is more to leading his men than holding firm in the line of battle. Love, hate, ambition and envy are forces which he must also confront. Per Mare — Per Terrain is the Royal Marines' proud motto, and in the heat of Africa and later in the bitter war of the Crimea Blackwood and his men must obey it
without question.
An enthralling adventure with a vividly authentic background, full of thrilling battle scenes on land and sea, Badge of Glory represents a challenging new departure for this bestselling writer.

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