| Kelly Maguire"BACK TO BATTLE"Royal Navy Max Hennessy novel |
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BACK TO BATTLE 1st. 1979 by ISBN 0 241 10259 6 £6.00 plus P & P |
A green cloth bound book with gilt lettering to spine which is lightly bumped both ends; some water damage to top and bottom corners of the front board which has discoloured the front paste down and flyleaf and bottom of front flap. Apart from flaws just mentioned page block is excellent. Still VERY GOOD condition. As is the unclipped wrapper; now in protective sleeve. |
Jacket blurbs
Between the wars Kelly Maguire, hero of Jutland, had once again shown himself a superb leader of men. In the third volume of The Lion at Sea he finds himself, because of Admiralty's obsession with big ships, in danger of being passed over for captain's rank. The Spanish Civil War, forcing on the Navy the need for men willing to make decisions, changes all that.
When World War II breaks out, Kelly has re-established himself as a man of action willing to risk his neck and his career, and with his command lost in the naval actions at Narvik, he finds himself ashore at Dunkirk, trying to bully unwilling French soldiers aboard ship. Dunkirk leads to the Atlantic, and the Atlantic to the Mediterranean during the dark months when Britain struggled alone against the victorious Nazis, with Kelly — together with old friends and old enemies — moving swiftly up the ladder as a clear leader of men. His ship lost again off Crete, he finds himself in a staff job in Egypt and in a whirlwind love affair, but he has never forgotten his first lost love, Charley Upfold, and returning to England to command a cruiser squadron with the rank of rear- admiral, he finds her again after apparently losing her forever after Dunkirk. He is on the threshold of great things as the Normandy landings finish and, established ashore in France, he returns to England to take command of a task force in the Pacific, only for his headlong career to come to an abrupt — though not a final — stop.
In Back to Battle, the splendid finale of his trilogy, Max Hennessy carries the Royal Navy through its last days of greatness as a power in the world.
Jacket design by Ian Robertson
Max Hennessy is a new pseudonym for John Harris, author of The Sea Shall Not Have Them, etc. Ex-sailor, ex- airman, ex-newspaperman, ex-travel courier, he went to sea before the war from his job as a newspaperman, going into the Merchant Navy and doing his first trip in the Windjammer, Lawhill. During the war he served with two air forces and two navies, was twice reported lost at sea, and had to swim for his life on more than one occasion. He returned to newspapers after the war but is now a full-time writer. He lives by the sea and for many years kept up his interest in flying with a private pilot's licence,
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