The Horizon

1st. 1993

William Heinenmann

an imprint of Reed Consumer Books Limited

London

ISBN 0 434 62633 3

A blue cloth bound book with silver lettering to the spine in Very Good condition in a Very Good unclipped dust wrapper. Pages are showing signs of browning beginning.

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 Horizon is the third book in the Blackwood—Royal Marines saga. The first, Badge of Glory, was set during the 1850s and the war against slavery in Africa, and the second, The First to Land, had a Chinese setting in 1900 with the Boxer Rebellion.

The Horizon takes Jonathan Blackwood into the 1914—1918 war, and the stark realisation that the days of scarlet coats, the square of battle and the Corps' unchanging tradition of honour and glory have gone for ever.

The story is in two parts. The first, the Gallipoli campaign, offers a horrifying initiation into a war of which the young marines have little understanding, and for which no training has prepared them.

The second half concerns the Naval Division in Flanders and trench warfare — the awful losses and the futility, while the minds of the general staff have been left far behind by the savagery of a conflict they cannot control.

The title of the novel refers to the dark lip of the trench, which greeted the marines every morning, and was too often the last thing they saw.

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