"Norway, 1940: Sub Lieutenant Harry Gilmour's first encounter with battleship action is not the adventure he had hoped for. Faced with a thankless task and ill equipped to handle it, Gilmour's inexperience leads to a damning allegation. His future hangs in the balance. But then Lieutenant Peter Duma
Gone to sea in a bucket: a Harry Gilmour novel
β Scribed by David Black
- Publisher
- Thomas & Mercer
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 224 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Seattle
- ISBN
- 1503947491
- ASIN
- B00W4JVJGE
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β¦ Synopsis
Like all young men of a certain age, Harry Gilmour had his own notion of how a naval battle should be. This wasnβt it.
Norway, 1940: Sub Lieutenant Harry Gilmourβs first encounter with battleship action is not the adventure he had hoped for. Faced with a thankless task and ill equipped to handle it, Gilmourβs inexperience leads to a damning allegation. His future hangs in the balance.
But then Lieutenant Peter Dumaresq steps in to offer him a lifelineβan advanced navigation course that will take him aboard a crack submarine, HMSPelorus, under the command of a Royal Navy hero. Faced with a possible court martial, Harry chooses life underwater. Once aboard, however, Harry is confronted for the first time by the full horror of submarine warfare. If he can just overcome his fears, it will be the making of him.
Because survival itself is the challenge now. For Harry and the rest of the crew, the next depth charge could be the one that sinks them.
β¦ Subjects
Adventure
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