Books by J. E. Macdonnell
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COMMANDER BRADY First published 1956
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A blue cloth bound book with siver lettering to spine - Brief inscription to front free end paper: Page block square, tight and clean with some edge browning and a little spotting to first and last few pages. In VERY GOOD condition. In the repaired/taped remains of un-clipped dust wrapper. £5.00 plus POSTAGE
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James Edmund MacDonnell was born in Queensland in 1917 and served in the Royal Australian Navy from the age of seventeen retiring after fourteen years as a commisioned gunnery officer. He started writing while serving and had hundreds of titles published under his own name and various nom de plumes. He died in 2002.
A very good appreciation of his life and his books can be found at this site:-
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Jacket flap blurb
COMMANDER BRADY
J. E. Macdonnell
Jim Brady joined the Royal Australian Navy as a raw recruit, and the story of his lower deck life was told in Jim Brady, Leading Seaman.
In this second volume of the projected trilogy we meet him as a Lieutenant Commander, commanding Circe, a destroyer on a war footing. The rapidity of his promotion, however well-deserved, brings its own problems, and Brady remains far too conscious of the fact that he has risen from the lower deck, and fancies that his seniors and his juniors resent his promotion.
Commander Brady is exciting on two levels. Firstly, there is plenty of action vividly described—a raid on a Jap held airfield, an account of Circe battling against a typhoon (J. E. Macdonnell has written nothing more thrilling), a grounding on a submerged reef when a shark attacks the divers sent down to inspect the damage. Mr. Macdonnell's readers will not be disappointed on this score. Secondly, there is always the underlying tension caused through Brady wondering not only whether a decision is right, but also what his officers will think of him if it is wrong, a tension that becomes unbearable at the court of inquiry following the grounding.
Brady, though unsure of his personal relationships, is a first-class seaman and commander, and, despite the inner tension, succeeds in achieving a happy ship. Not for nothing has one reviewer described him as "a modern Hornblower".
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