- Title:
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Battlecruiser (MP3)
- Written by:
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Douglas Reeman
- Read by:
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David Rintoul
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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9 hours 45 minutes
- MP3 size:
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406 MB
- Published:
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March 01 2016
- Available Date:
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March 01 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489093233
- Genres:
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Fiction; British Fiction; War Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
'Excellent ... what Reeman likes is plot and characterisation, and, like many a good craft, his lines are good and clean.'
The Times
When Captain Guy Sherbrooke joins HMS Reliant in 1943, he knows he may be her last Captain. Sister battleships have been destroyed, and Sherbrooke cannot alter the bitter truth that there will be no half measures for HMS Reliant.
The Battlecruiser – in their time this class of ships was considered one of the great triumphs of the Royal Navy, as swift as a destroyer but packing a deadly firepower equal to any ship afloat. But the ships had one fatal flaw: their armour could be pierced by a single enemy shell. The Battle of Jutland exposed this Achilles' heel, then further disasters followed in the next world war with the tragic sinkings of the Hood and Repulse.
1943 – Of all her class, HMS Reliant and one other have survived. Reliant has the reputation of a lucky ship but when Captain Guy Sherbrooke joins her he knows he could be her last captain. As Britain prepares to invade occupied Europe, Reliant will be thrown head first into the conflagration. All those who sail in her know that there can be no half measures: only death or glory awaits HMS Reliant.
'If any author deserves to be piped into bookshops with full naval honours it is Douglas Reeman, without question master of both genres of naval fiction – historical and modern.'
Books Magazine