The Ship - Softcover

Forester, C. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931313172 ISBN 13: 9781931313179

Publisher: Simon Publications, 2001

Synopsis

Reprint of the ed. published by Sun Dial Press in 1944.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

'One of the most vivid accounts of a modern battle at sea ever written'Sunday Times

One vital convoy can break Mussolini's stranglehold on Malta - but it is intercepted in the Mediterranean by enemy warships ...

Five light British cruisers are left to beat back the armed might of the Italian battle fleet and C.S. Forester - creator of Horatio Hornblower - takes us aboard HMS Artemis as she steams into battle against overwhelming odds. We get inside the heads of Artemis's men, from the Captain on his bridge down to the lowest engine room rating, as they struggle over one long and terrifying afternoon to do their duty.

C.S. Forester brilliantly recounts life aboard a British warship during some of the darkest days of the Second World War: capturing the urgency of the blazing guns, the thunderous rupturing of deck plates, the screams of pain and the shouts of triumph.

About the Author:

Cecil Scott C.S. Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 2 April 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and "The African Queen" (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). His novels "A Ship of the Line" and "Flying Colours" were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon Publications
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1931313172
• ISBN 13: 9781931313179
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288