Synopses & Reviews
Young Nick Everard leads the raid on Zeebrugge, termed by Churchill "the finest feat of arms of the Great War". Nick Everard is Executive Officer of the destroyer Mackerel, which has spent the winter months of 1917-18 endlessly patrolling the Straits of Dover to prevent German ships from reaching the Atlantic. Despite his lack of respect for his captain, Everard achieves successes in action. Then he is summoned for top-secret special duty: to command a raid to capture a German trawler's crew and bring them back to Dover. The raid is prefatory to the St. George's Day operation in which, in the space of an hour, the German naval fortifications at Zeebrugge are destroyed. And Everard, at the age of twenty-two, is rewarded with his first destroyer command.
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"The most meticulously researched war novels that I have ever read." (Len Deighton)
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"Has the ring of truth and the integrity proper to a work of art." (The Daily Telegraph [London])
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"His action passages are superb." (The Observer [London])
Synopsis
Young Nick Everard leads the raid on Zeebrugge, termed by Churchill "the finest feat of arms of the Great War."Nick Everard is Executive Officer of the destroyer "Mackerel, which has spent the winter months of 1917-18 endlessly patrolling the Straits of Dover to prevent German ships from reaching the Atlantic. Despite his lack of respect for his captain, Everard achieves successes in action. Then he is summoned for top-secret special duty: to command a raid to capture a German trawler's crew and bring them back to Dover. The raid is prefatory to the St. George's Day operation in which, in the space of an hour, the German naval fortifications at Zeebrugge are destroyed. And Everard, at the age of twenty-two, is rewarded with his first destroyer command.
About the Author
Alexander Fullerton attended the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, at the age of thirteen. He served in battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines and has written many novels about the sea in addition to the nine volumes of the Everard series.