1st. 1981 Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London ISBN 0 09 144700 3

A blue cloth bound book with silver lettering to the spine in Very Good condition. In Very Good unclipped dust wrapper . An inscription scrawled in red biro has been ineffectually erased from the centre of the title page.

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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
TORPEDO RUN

The tremendous power and remarkable authenticity of Douglas Reeman's sea stories have made him an international bestseller with world sales exceeding fifteen million copies. In this, his twenty-first novel, he sets epic scenes of stirring naval action against the little-known background of the Black Sea, where in 1943 the Russians — supported by a small flotilla of British motor torpedo boats — fought a desperate and bitter war against Nazi Germany.
After many months of reverses and losses on land and sea, Britain and the Allies had gained a foothold in Sicily, to be followed three months later by the invasion of Italy. Even along the Eastern Front the Germans were at last falling back – but in the Black Sea the Crimean Peninsula remained firmly in German hands, the crucial hinge for the whole Russian campaign. The Russians were plagued and hampered by the daring hit-and-run tactics of German light naval forces: E-boats brought overland to be thrown into the fight.
Partly as a gesture of Allied solidarity, a flotilla of five British motor torpedo boats were sent by a roundabout route to fight the old enemy on their own terms. Lieutenant-Commander John Devane, already a veteran at twenty-seven, was given command of the flotilla at short notice, and soon discovered that, even set against the vast backcloth of the Eastern Front, war could still be personal, a duel between individuals in the savagery of high-speed battle.

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