BATTLECRUISER - Hardcover

Reeman, Douglas

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ISBN 10: 0434002917 ISBN 13: 9780434002917

Publisher: Random House UK, 1997

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The battlecruisers were hailed as the British fleet's greyhounds, remarkable for their size and speed. They were designed to outrun and outshoot their heavier opponents. But the Batle of Jutland exposed their fatal flaw, the weakness of their armor, which could be pierced by a single shell. Since the outbreak of World War II, only four remained in the British fleet. In 1843, Captain Guy Sherbrooke joins H.M.S Reliant. Battlecruisers Hood and Repulse have been destroyed. The Reliant has been a legend and a survivor and now with Britain preparing to invade occupied Europe, she must enter in the battle. Sherbrooke, commander of the ship, knows that for one of her class there can only be death or victory. 275 pages. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Heinemann, London, England, 1997.

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About the Author:

Douglas Reeman did convoy duty in the Navy in the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the North Sea. He has written over thirty novels under his own name and more than twenty bestselling historical novels featuring Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.

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Here's a nicely told saga of the last British battlecruiser, the HMS RELIANT, as she goes about her final tasks in WWII. With more than 12 million copies of his books in print under his own name and that of Alexander Kent, Reeman knows how to tell a terse, technically accurate, somewhat predictable war story. Reader David Rintoul continues Chivers's tradition of engaging, highly competent British actors; he makes each character come alive with intonation alone. D.W. � AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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