- Title:
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The First to Land
- Series:
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Blackwood Family #2
- Written by:
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Douglas Reeman
- Read by:
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David Rintoul
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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7
- Duration:
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8 hours 24 minutes
- Published:
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September 28 2016
- Available Date:
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September 28 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489360588
- Genres:
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Fiction; General Fiction; Historical Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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'One of our foremost writers of naval fiction.'
The Sunday Times
This is the second novel in the Blackwood saga, spanning 150 years in the history of a great seafaring family and the tradition in which they served.
1899, China. The Mandarins are becoming troublesome again and there are rumours that attacks will soon begin on British trade missions and legations. Captain David Blackwood of the Royal Marines, received a VC in the bloody battle for Benin, Africa, but is now being packed off to this apparent backwater.
But there are plenty of troubles in store for Blackwood in the shape of an errant nephew and a beautiful German Countess who insists he personally escort her up river on a small steamer into the heart of the country. China is a sleeping tiger that will soon awake when the Boxer Rebellion erupts into bloody war in 1900. True to their motto, the Royal Marines are the first to land – and the last to leave.
'Masterly storytelling.'
The Times