The Skipper's Dog's Called Stalin (A Harry Gilmour Novel Book 2)
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B015FMV3K8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 389 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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He lives in Argyll.. David Black is a former Fleet Street journalist and television documentary producer. As a boy, the lives of those underwater warriors captured his imagination. He spent much of his childhood a short walk from the Royal Navy Submarine Memorial at Lazaretto Point on the Firth of Clyde, and he grew up watching the passage of both US and Royal Navy submarines in and out of the Firth’s bases at Holy Loch and Faslane. David Black is also
Within its claustrophobic confines, suspicion and misunderstanding are rife.So when Radegonde is sent on a mission to Martinique, it’s vital that these proud men learn to work together, especially as it seems everyone from Churchill to de Gaulle—not to mention Hitler—has a stake in the outcome.Will Harry be able to navigate these dangerous waters safely and return with hard-won wisdom, or will old enemies arise to sink him?. France has fallen but the Free French naval forces are in no mood to surrender. Spring, 1941. Royal Navy Sub-Lieutenant Harry Gilmour is also ready for action, despite the horrors of his first taste of submarine warfare.When he is appointed as British Navy Liaison Officer aboard the Free French submarine Radegonde, he finds it anarchic, disorientating—and very French
When he grew up, he discovered the truth was even more epic, and so followed the inspiration for his fictional submariner Harry Gilmour and a series of novels about his adventures across World War Two. He lives in Argyll.. About the AuthorDavid Black is a former Fleet Street journalist and television documentary producer. David Black is also the author of a non-fiction book, Triad Takeover: A Terrifying Account of the Spread of Triad Crime in the West. He spent much of his childhood a short walk from the Royal Navy Submarine Memorial at Lazaretto Point on the Firth of Clyde, and he grew up watching the passage of both US and Royal Navy submarines in and out of the Firth’s bases at Holy Loch and Faslane. As a boy, the lives of those underwater warriors captured his imagination
Two Thumbs Up for the Author As an Advisor/LO to the Vietnamese Blue Water Navy back in the day I could empathize with the situation Sub Lt Gilmore found himself in as a British Naval Liaison Officer aboard a Free French submarine. All alone (Harry at least had two RN radiomen with him), not wanted, different military culture, different food, different attitude and not fully fluent in the language were all too real parallels. Perhaps his situation can also be summed up by the following USN Fleet Command Advisor Creed "It's not my job to man the ship, the whistle I can't blow, It's not for me to s. The Horatio Hornblower of World War II Fireman721 As a reader of the complete Horatio Hornblower series by C S Forester I couldn't help but notice some parallels. Young, somewhat shy, young man with a poor family life in a lower class of British Society gets into the royal navy and after some misadventures with the supercilious officers from the 'right families' is shunted off to submarine duty. Our Horatio, Harry Gilmour, through a little luck and a lot of perseverance, intestinal fortitude, and adherence to personal behavior principles is able to succeed. In this book our plucky lad is assigned to a French submarin. Good but predictable Kindle Customer A good naval adventure. The plot is interesting but predictable. The major character is quite a potential leader but no Hornrblower.I have read the other books in the series. They are solid reading but do come close in the major books in naval fiction.