1. The Blooding of the Guns
2. Sixty minutes for St George
3. Patrol to the Golden Horn
4. Storm Force to Narvik
5. The Last Lift from Crete

6. All the Drowning Seas
7. A Share of Honour
8. The Torch Bearers
9. The Gatecrashers

Blurbs

Crete, May 1941. Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham's signal to his fleet was Stick it out. Navy must not let Army down . . . But the ships, with no air cover of their own, had to run the gauntlet of 2,000 German bombers; and keep on running it without respite, without rest, with only darkness in which to lick their wounds.
This is the setting for a new episode in the career of Nick Everard. When it opens he commands the destroyer Tuareg, and during the Cretan operations he finds himself in company with the cruiser Carnarvon in which his own son Jack Everard is navigator. They are together when Carnarvon is subjected to the Stukas' most savage onslaught yet. And then Nick is faced with what looks at first like an insoluble problem — how to `lift' a completely cut-off body of troops, plus an Australian field hospital with a staff of thirty nurses, from under the Germans' noses on the 'wrong' side of the island, where
dawn can only find the ships still well inside Stuka territory. By this time Captain Sir Nicholas Everard commands not only Tuareg but a flotilla of battered, battle-scarred destroyers.
Last Lift from Crete is the story of a battle lost and won. Combining personal family drama and gripping naval action to compelling effect, it reveals Alexander Fullerton at the top of his considerable form.
ISBN 0 7181 1890 I

The author

Alexander Fullerton is well-qualified to write novels with a naval background; he comes from a naval family, and went to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth at the age of 13 in 1937. He went to sea as a midshipman at the end of 194i, serving first in the Mediterranean — in the battleship Queen Elizabeth, cruiser Orion and destroyer Hero, before joining submarines at Malta — and later in the North Sea and Far East; he ended the war as a lieutenant with a mention-indespatches for distinguished service. He resigned from the navy in 1949, and worked for ten years in South Africa. During this period, he had his first novel published — SURFACE! — based on his experience as gunnery and torpedo officer on the submarine Seadog. SURFACE! has so far sold nearly a million copies around the world. Since his return to England in 1958, he has published other kinds of fiction — including the novels CHIEF EXECUTIVE, THE PUBLISHER and OTHER MEN'S WIVES — but is now `back at sea' for good.