| Kelly Maguire"THE DANGEROUS YEARS"Royal Navy Max Hennessy novel |
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THE DANGEROUS YEARS 1st. 1978 by ISBN 0 241 10015 1 £7.50 plus P & P |
A green cloth bound book with gilt lettering to spine which is lightly bumped both ends; page block is immaculate; VERY GOOD condition. |
Jacket blurbs
Hero of Jutland in World War I, Kelly Maguire progresses rapidly to senior rank during the inter-war years — beset with difficulties as, in particularly dangerous times, politicians insist on cutting down the Navy's strength. Kelly finds himself involved in the appalling tragedy of the Russian Civil War of 1919-1920, when the Navy manned armoured trains and was occupied in the rescue of thousands of terrified White Russians while the Red Army approached and typhus decimated their regiments.
Readers of Max Hennessy's previous book, the first in The Lion at Sea series, will remember Kelly's lifelong romance with Charlotte Upfold (`Charley'). This becomes complicated by the appearance of a seductive Russian baroness. When Kelly finds himself concerned with the activities of the Yangtze gunboats during the Chinese troubles of 1927, there is yet another emotional entanglement, and this one leads to marriage, not to the unfortunate Charley but to the spoiled daughter of a wealthy aristocrat. Kelly's life suddenly seems to go haywire, and he returns to an England in the traumatic experiences of the naval mutiny at Invergordon. Kelly's confidence and initiative are typical of a hardened sailor, who is a born leader, and these, with a dash of luck and a little help from an old love and an old enemy, save him from disaster in a splendid and gripping climax to the book.
The Dangerous Years is a tremendous sequel in the story of Kelly Maguire. It is also a book with much period interest, dealing with vital incidents in British history not often featured in books about the Navy.
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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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