Rendezvous - South Atlantic by Douglas Reeman

1st. 1972

Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.,

London

ISBN 0 09 109270 1

A navy cloth bound book with gilt lettering to the spine in Very Good condition. In a chipped, torn unclipped dust wrapper in a protective sleeve. Previous owners name across the top oof the front free endpaper.

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

Rendezvous — South Atlantic Douglas Reeman

Douglas Reeman's reputation as a front-rank writer of sea stories is now secure. He has been hailed as `a born storyteller' (Sunday Telegraph) and as `a master in whose hands British naval fiction is safe' (Chicago Tribune). Rendezvous—South Atlantic has all the qualities which have won him acclaim: forceful narrative, convincing characters, and strongly drawn backgrounds.

By 1941, when she became an armed merchant cruiser, the S.S. Benbecula—once a familiar sight on her voyages between England and Australia—was tired and old. But even she was needed to protect vital sea lanes against relentless enemy attack, and her new captain, Commander Andrew Lindsay, had to transform her into a ship of war.

Many of his company were green recruits ; others, remembering their ship's cruising days, were resentful of change—and Lindsay, himself a victim of the Atlantic's cruelty, regarded Benbecula as the end of the line after he had commanded a destroyer. In the freezing wastes of the Arctic and later in the grey hostility of the Atlantic, Lindsay had to use all his skill and determination to overcome his own nightmare and to give his command the one chance she needed to prove herself.

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