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Nick Everard 3. A covert submarine raid where everything is at risk...The final days of the First World War... and the menacing bulk of the German battlecruiser Goeben lurks in the Golden Horn at Constantinople. It is vital that she is destroyed, or at least immobilised, and the favoured method is to send an E-class submarine in through the Dardanelles to the sea of Marmara. However, it is two years since an Allied submarine has passed through the Dardanelles successfully – the narrow straits are littered with minefields and nets, and are continually patrolled by gunboats. To send a submarine through now seems suicidal, but the alternative of sparing the Goeben is unthinkable. Aided by a Marine explosives expert and a taciturn intelligence specialist, Nick Everard is on board and in control, ready to run the gauntlet in his most dangerous mission yet... -
Nicholas Everard 2. On St George’s Day 1918 the Royal Navy launch a desperate assault on the German base of Zeebrugge. In the sixty minutes from touchdown to withdrawal, eleven VCs were won and hundreds lay dead or wounded. Churchill said the raid ‘may well rank as the finest feat of arms of the Great War’. Sub-lieutenant Nicholas Everard finds himself in the thick of it: working on mine-laying operations, manning coastal patrols and, above all, fighting in savage clashes with enemy destroyers. He must not only fight his skilled opponents: he must fight the odds. -
Surface! Alexander Fullerton
$18.00This is life on HMS Seahound: routine and special operations; boarding Chinese junks; creeping through minefields; engaging a Japanese cruiser; evading depth charges; returning to the port of Ceylon and the Depot Ship; and then off again into action with unerring zeal. But can they keep evading tragedy forever? And if the war ends, will they really be able to cope with life on the surface? Surface! is Fullerton’s first novel, released in 1953 and based on his own life as a submarine torpedo officer. A tale of one crew’s hardship, camaraderie and great daring on board a British submarine serving in Asian waters during the Second World War. -
Russia, 1919: Lt. Commander Bob Cowan is serving with the Royal Navy in the Black Sea when he is briefed to locate and rescue two British girls, thought to be working as nurses with the White Army. Their parents are frantic with worry - the Bolsheviks' treatment of young, attractive female prisoners is harsh. But when the news of the Front's collapse reaches the Navy, Cowan is already pushing on into the interior - and even if the recall signal reaches him it's conceivable that he'll ignore it. -
1941: The exotic city of Alexandria is under siege by the Afrika Korps. It is the Royal Navy's major Eastern Mediterranean base and a lethal threat to warships is posed by Italian frogmen and their 'human torpedoes'. Not a good time for a British sub commander to fall in love with a half-Italian girl,with Alexandria's large Italian population only too eager to welcome Rommel and his troops. -
The Norwegian freighter Gangerolf leaves Subic Bay in the Philippines with a motley assortment of passengers. In the hold, under armed guard, is the entire crew of a sunken U-boat. In the first class cabins are Bill Derby, a British submarine commander on his way back to England for a medical board; Lt-Commander Witheringham - 'Withers' - a useless little man whose existence the Admiralty has forgotten over the years; and Captain Spatter, the American commander of the prisoners' guard. He's always broke becuase he plays craps with the enlisted men and never wins. But the most important passenger is Wren (Womens' Royal Navy Service) Mary Lou Smith - an unconventional young woman. Every character, from Wren Smith to Captain 'Happy' Christiansen, the Gangerolf 's huge, whiskey-guzzling Master, is real and alive, from the moment they board the freighter to the day they are marooned on a deserted island. -
Summer, 1904: Tsar Nicholas II is sending his Baltic fleet – a ragtag bunch of old crooks, untrained, potentially mutinous crews and hopelessly inefficient officers – halfway around the world to reinforce his few remaining ships in the Far East. Here the Japanese fleet under Admiral Togo has been scoring success after success against the Russians. Michael Henderson, a lieutenant caught in a forbidden tryst with the young Princess Natasha Volodnyakova on the eve of her engagement party to another man, is offered the dubious honour of sailing as an observer to Tsushima, where one of the most devastating sea battles in history will be waged. Unable to refuse, Henderson will need all his wits, and a good measure of luck, if he wants to survive… -
Rosie Ewing IV. France, August 1945. When two agents are arrested in Paris, SOE agent Rosie Ewing is sent to rescue them. Also in Paris is a woman called Jacqueline, already known to Rosie and now the mistress of a highly-placed SD officer. Rosie’s brief is to find Jacqueline, and through her discover where the two agents are being held, then get them out before they either talk or die. But how? She needs help from the French Resistance. But both Gaullist and Communist groups are stirring – and at each other’s throats. There are also several exceptionally vicious pro-Nazi groups out there…Rosie is going in, solo and virtually blind. -
Three miles deep in the Atlantic lies a cargo to tempt the brave and the foolish: gold and atomic secrets. The diving-support ship, the Eventyrer, is positioned right over it with a Russian-built submersible - the Crab - ready for launch. Despite the ship's compliment of skilled technicians, only one man aboard is capable of operating the Crab's claws - its exterior manipulators: Mark Jaeger, an estate agent from Brighton. His girlfriend Lucy works for the tycoon financing the operation and when Mark is 18,400 feet down on the ocean floor in pitch darkness and an ambient sea pressure of four tons per square inch, those two will be up in the sunshine enjoying a much closer relationship than usual between employer and employee. Mark has his own reasons for taking the place of a professional pilot and there's a rival French team ready to step in if this lot back off. But in the thrill and adventure of the dive, will they forget that to reach the ocean bed is only half the journey? Cover art by Paul Wright.
