Cameron's Commitment

Phillip Mccutchan

ISBN 10: 0745110606 / ISBN 13: 9780745110608

Published by Lythway Large Print, Uk, 1990

About this Item

LARGE PRINT, pictorial boards, library stamped, minor fep damage, very good copy, some very little shelf wear, very minor wear to edges, corners and spine, otherwise a very good copy overall. clean and tight, Cameron was not alone in finding it strange that he had been given command of the Castile.

Seller Inventory # 617683

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cameron's Commitment
• Publisher: Lythway Large Print, Uk
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745110606
• ISBN 13: 9780745110608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Ex-Library
• Seller catalogs:
  • Large Print

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

For almost a third of this WW II naval adventure, the crew of the British light cruiser Castile are in the dark as to the ship's mission. Lt.-Commander Donald Cameron, heading a smaller-than-usual crew, takes the Castile from Portsmouth on England's South coast to a sea basin off Northern Scotland for a hurried, hush-hush refitting, and then takes on board a contingent of Royal Marines. Eventually we learn that the Castile is to be scuttled on the defense-works of Nazi-occupied Dieppe and that the Marines plan to rescue the British leader of a Resistance group. Along the way, as usual ( Cameron's Troop Lift ), McCutchan delves into the inner lives of the men under the stalwart, if phlegmatic, Cameron. We meet chief petty officer "Bull----" Shine, yeoman Robbins and ordinary seaman MacTavish, the last a "bad 'un" who redeems himself under fire. Presenting a wide-angled view of home-front hardships and personal problems, McCutchan delivers a good, gritty look at the dynamics of wartime existence.
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