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THE PRICE WAS HIGH
A NOVEL

by
Gilbert Hackforth-Jones

First published February 1946 by
Hodder & Stoughton Limited, London

A blue cloth bound book with black lettering to spine - cover faded where jacket loss occured but clean. Inscription to front free end paper: signature and date. In VERY GOOD condition. In the repaired/taped remains of a clipped dust wrapper.

£5.00 plus POSTAGE

Jacket flap blurb

Life in the Navy, in peace and war, aboard submarine and battleship has been portrayed with rare realism in Hackforth-Jones' delightful naval yarns

SUBMARINE FLOTILLA
ONE -ONE -ONE
SUBMARINE ALONE
ROUGH PASSAGE

" Good racy stuff with plenty of excitement."
—Sunday Times.
" The author knows his subject and his atmosphere."
—The Times Literary Supplement.

Jacket back blurb

"The Price was High"

Book was inspired by the admiration, with which the author regards the R.N.V.R. Officer. It is the story of a young Englishman who did not fit into pre-war London but seized his opportunity on joining the Navy and proved himself to be a seaman of exceptional powers. The setting is laid in a section of the Stock Exchange community of London immediately before the war with yachting holidays interspersed, and then passes to the war at sea in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Oceans. There is a strong love interest. The story ends on the note of uncertainty which is the subject of all temporary officers' thoughts.
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No Less Renowned No Less Renowned

THIS is a book of stories about submarines in peace-time—stories which serve to link up November 1918 with September 1938. In these uncertain days it is well to know that the war-time traditions of the Submarine Service have been preserved and passed on—that, indeed, is the theme of the book.   SIXTEEN BELLS: STORIES OF THE ROYAL NAVY IN PEACE AND WAR by Commander Gilbert Hackforth-Jones; who depicts life in the Royal Navy in a way calculated to make many of his readers long to burn their civilian boats and go to sea. Some of these stories are concerned with war and some with peace, but the author's preference here is for the lighter side of the service, and very entertaining it is. Those who remember Eeyore Smith from One-one-one will be glad to hear that this garrulous and not over-modest submariner has surfaced again !