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The Volunteers

1st. 1981

Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.

An imprint of the Hutchinson Publishing Group

London

ISBN 0 09 160070 7

A blue cloth bound book with silver lettering to the spine in Very Good condition. In Very Good unclipped 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

DOUGLAS REEMAN
THE VOLUNTEERS

Tense excitement and complete authenticity have made Douglas Reeman Britain's leading writer of naval adventure, and a world best-seller, with sales exceeding fifteen million copies. I n The Volunteers he turns to the story of the men and women who served in the Royal Navy's Special Operations units, and who were as varied as the methods they used against the enemy in the Second World War.

Carrying out lightning raids on hostile coasts and shipping, they became a navy within a navy, each of them hand-picked for individual skills, all of them courageous in their own individual ways. Nobody knew for certain if their small but deadly operations made a real impression on the conduct of the war, but they did their hazardous duty anyway, living often beyond hope, sometimes beyond mercy.

This is a story about a handful of such people, their fears and their loves, of the resilience and vulnerability of youth at war at the time of the Sicilian and Italian invasions in 1943 and of D-Day in 1944. Some of them fought an endless fight against fear and doubt, some of them rejoiced in the demands of combat, many did not survive.
Perhaps they had little in common except that they were all volunteers.

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