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' The Price was High ' was inspired by the admiration, with which the author, Commander Gilbert Hackforth-Jones in this vnovel written in 1946, 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.
Death of an Admiral
Sink the Prince of Wales
Click here to go to Keith H. Vignoles' " A Prisoner of Portchester " book page at camberpete.co.uk set in the Portsmouth/Chichester area during the Napoleonic Wars !
THE POST CAPTAIN by JOHN DAVIS: First published in the year of Trafalgar this rollicking yarn was written by a frigate's midshipman and caricatures his superior officers in action and in love. The only surviving contemporary comic work about the Nelsonian navy. Still good fun and now also provides a valuable first hand picture of naval life and manners of the period.
Donald Moore's World War II novel of One Arctic Convoy is a first-hand, authentic novel of ordinary men at war - based on the fortunes of a Russian-bound convoy, at the height of the U-boat threat. The men, whose words and actions, loves and hates, are so exactly recorded in this book, are in Drake's words, 'All of one company'.
ALL STATIONS TO MALTA by Gilbert Hackforth-Jones: This saga of Lieutenant-Commander Paul Dexter's doings as Captain of the Commander-in-Chief's yacht attached to the Mediterranean Fleet is something of a follow-up to the same character's adventures in far eastern waters described in Chinese Poison.      
A sweeping and epic adventure set during the momentous first clashes of the Napoleonic Wars. 'Under Enemy Colours' is a masterpiece in the tradition of Patrick O'Brian and Bernard Cornwell. Admiral on Horseback
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.
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