The Destroyers by Douglas Reeman

1st. 1970

Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.,

London

ISBN 0 09 119940 9

A blue cloth bound book with white lettering to the spine in Very Good condition - spine has a light crease lengthways. In an unclipped but edge chipped, and a little rumpled, dust wrapper .

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

The Destroyers Douglas Reeman

With this, his sixteenth novel, Douglas Reeman once again shows why he is internationally regarded as one of the finest story-tellers writing today. He has been acclaimed for the strength of his plots, the realism of his settings, the excitement of his action sequences, and the credibility of his characters. This story of a destroyer flotilla in action at a desperate time during the Second World War is a superb narrative of courage, drama and epic adventure.

The eight destroyers,affectionately or despairingly nicknamed the Scrapyard Flotilla by the men who served them, had seen just about every kind of action at sea since they were originally built to fight the Kaiser's navy. By 1943 the Second World War had reached a turning point for the Allies, and to help prepare the way for the invasion of Northern Europe, the old flotilla was transferred to the control of Special Operations to be used for hard-hitting raids wherever they would be the most value. Were the ships chosen because of their experience or because they were expendable?

The uneasiness of Lieutenant Commander Keith Drummond, captain of the destroyer Warlock, was further roused by the appointment of Captain Dudley Beaumont to control the destiny of the flotilla. Hailed as a `hero' by the press, Beaumont should have been the obvious choice for the job, but Drummond knew that it took more than an ability to survive to make a hero.

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