Take Or Destroy! (U) - Hardcover

Harris, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708904459 ISBN 13: 9780708904459

Publisher: Ulverscroft, 1980

Synopsis

The danger, action, drama, heroism and tragedy of desert warfare come to life in a fictional account of the important battle of El Alemain

About this title

About the Author:

John Harris, who also wrote under the pen names of 'Mark Hebden' and 'Max Hennessy' was born in 1916. He authored the best-selling and later filmed The Sea Shall Not Have Them, a story of survival and rescue from World War II, which continues to be periodically screened on TV. He was a sailor, an airman, a journalist, a travel courier, a cartoonist and a history teacher. During the War Harris managed to serve with two air forces and two navies. After turning to full-time writing, he wrote adventure stories, war novels, political thrillers, and also created a sequence of crime novels around the quirky French Chief Inspector Pel, centred primarily in Burgundy, but occasionally Paris and elsewhere. Harris was unusually versatile and wide ranging as an author. Epics such as China Seas, which deals with human tragedy, war and revolution in an authentic historical setting, and the three trilogies written under the pseudonym Max Hennessy - one of which, the Kelly Maguire series which commences with Lion at Sea, being amongst the finest modern war-at-sea stories written - along with African adventure novels, wide-ranging crime, mysteries and historical fiction, guarantee a whole library of diverse and entertaining reading full of dry wit and gripping prose.

Review:

One of the finest war novels of the year.--Evening News

About this edition

• Publisher: Ulverscroft
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0708904459
• ISBN 13: 9780708904459
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 489