Blurb

HMS Marathon

An accomplished story-teller turns the sights on the war at sea: the Mediterranean, 1942. Operation Stonehenge gets underway: a convoy laden with desperately needed fuel, food and ammunition for the besieged island of Malta sets sail.
In command is Captain Robert Thurston; his cruiser, HMS Marathon is one of the escort vessels on this run to Malta. Thurston, the pivotal character, is a career officer with a record of conspicuous gallantry under fire in both World Wars.
In the last three years he has seen one ship go to the bottom; his closest friends and shipmates killed and maimed. The impossibly heavy burden of responsibility for his men's welfare in the midst of the bloody destruction of war at sea has worn him down. The tremendous stress of command is visible to those closest to him, but Thurston is not a man to give in.
Then the Marathon is crippled by enemy action and is forced to limp towards Alexandria, a constant target for attack by sea and air, vulnerable to the weather and the enemy alike.
The tension of the action and the force of the emotions make this a novel of war and of the sea to be remembered.

Author

HMS Marathon marks the debut of a superb writer, a novelist to invite comparison with Patrick O'Brian and Nicholas Monsarrat.
About the Author A. E. Langsford was
born in Cheshire, England, in 1959 and educated at the Universities of Newcastle, York and Durham before training to become a solicitor. Langsford is currently finishing the sequel to Marathon, following which will be a third novel featuring the same hero at the end of the War in the Pacific.

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