| Richard Hough's "Buller's Victory" last Archy Buller book! |
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Buller's Victory 1984 ISBN 0 297 78420 X |
A red cloth bound book with bright gilt lettering to the spine - VERY GOOD PLUS condition. The author has written a personal dedication on the title page to a person [Captain John Coote, RN.] who is thanked in print for his help. The VERY GOOD dust wrapper is unclipped with a couple of very small chips. £25.00 plus Postage & Packing |
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Jacket blurbs
It is November 1914, the Great War is three months old, and the Royal Navy is hard- pressed by u-boats and fast German battle-cruisers in the North Sea and frustrated in distant oceans by equally elusive raiders preying on shipping.
Since the Dutch Wars of the seventeenth century, Bullers have played a leading part in keeping safe the nation and her
possessions overseas. And now in this new trial Captain Archibald Buller and his younger son Richard find themselves in the heat of the action, from the Falkland
Islands to the Dardanelles, the Dogger Bank to Jutland.
But both older and younger man have to face second enemies, too. Richard Buller is forced to come to terms with weaknesses within himself, his ally in this silent struggle the intriguing Helena Cochrane. Archy Buller's enemies stem from within his service, which is riddled with internal feuds from which he at last sets himself free, but only by embarking on the most hazardous job he has ever faced.
In this sequel to Buller's Guns and Buller's Dreadnought Richard Hough has once again set a strong narrative against real events, with a cast of leading personalities of the day — Churchill and Lloyd George, Admirals Beatty, Jellicoe and Fisher, and many more, all of whom bring to even more vivid life this thirty-knot story of sea warfare.
Jacket illustration by Mike Roffe
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"The Arrow's commander had a hand on Richard's arm as if about to say something when a brilliant yellow light suddenly illuminated the destroyer. For a fraction of a second it might have been a paralysing death-ray so fierce, blinding and all- revealing was the point-blank searchlight beam. The spell was broken by smothering shell fire that seemed to come tearing and crashing in on them from every quarter, the chorus of accompanying sound ranging from the thud-thud-thud of heavy quick-firers to the tearing screech of machine-guns and lethal whistle of shell splinters.
Not a shot, not a bullet, seemed to miss the little Arrow, which flinched and shuddered as if struck repeatedly by massive steam hammers. Richard's response was as swift and instinctive as a kicked dog's — "Open rapid fire, all guns !" he bawled down the speaking tube."
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