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When a German U-Boat captain orders the machine gunning of the survivors of a torpedoed freighter, he does so to safeguard his own ship and crew. There follows a relentless hunt for the submarine and finally a post-war military tribunal, in which the captain faces the freighter's only survivor.
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An Operational Necessity
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Shannon, New Zealand
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 444 pages. Cover slightly worn, Text lightly tanned It is January 5, 1945. A French freighter is torpedoed in the South Atlantic. By the laws of war, the shipwrecked survivors should be beyond further attack. But when the U-boat commander orders that they be shot, he justifies it as an o perational necessity. He believes that the safety of his own boat and crew depe nds on destroying all traces of the sinking. Only later, at an Allied tribunal a fter V-E Day, are the grim facts fully brought to light in a dramatic confrontat ion between the sole survivor and the captured German officers. Crisscrossing br illiantly from the agonies of the wounded survivors to the action aboard the hun ted submarine, Gwyn Griffin divides the reader's sympathies as he probes incisiv ely into the paradoxes of human nature and of war and its aftermath. Before his early death, Griffin was hailed as a storyteller to surpass his contemporaries A listair MacLean and Hammond Innes. The proof is here, in a novel that ends with one of the most harrowing courtroom scenes in modern fiction. Seller Inventory # 6821ab
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An Operational Necessity
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Fontana Pub./ Collins., Great Britian, England, UK., 1974
ISBN 10: 0006135439
ISBN 13: 9780006135432
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Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Painted Front Cover (illustrator). Second Edition By Publisher. 444 pages *** CANADA BUYERS; (This is a THICK BOOK, thus can only be shipped by Expedited Mail in CANADA; Standard Pre-Set Postage Rates ONLY APPLY in Manitoba & Saskatchewan; Other Canadian Provinces will Need to pay EXTRA Shipping Charges); *** "It is a war story, a sea story, a courtroom story, a suspense story, buy it iis also a soty of ideas . Never for a moment does the interest wane; Grittin transfixes his reader and holds him until the last page." - Virginia Pasley, Newsday. >>> Cover creasing; ; edge wear to covers; pen to covers; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 167301