Winged Escort

By: Douglas Reeman

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Paperback | 1 May 1989 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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17.7 x 11.2 x 2.1

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As the grim years of the Second World War go by, the destruction of Allied shipping mounts. Out of the terrible loss of men and ships, the escort carrier is born. At twenty-six, fighter pilot Tim Rowan, RNVR, is already a veteran of many campaigns. Now he joins the escort carrier, GROWLER, a posting which takes him first to the bitter waters of the Arctic and all the misery of convoy duty to Murmansk, and then south to the Indian Ocean and the strange new terror of the Japanese Kamikaze. . .

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Action stations again - this is Reeman's 16th novel of the British navy in WW II. Pilot Tim Rowan, who's already had a bad year (one crash) hover-covers over the Growler, part of an Allied convoy. There are other participants but mostly it's Rowan's story, after he's sent off to knock out a tanker, after he hears his home and parents have been blitzed to death, after he's the only survivor of an exploding flare picked up in the water, and after he reaches Sydney where he falls in love with another officer's wife - an officer who has no morals nor any. ethos of war except as a "game." Not so Reeman, who handles his novels with authority and conscience for that stand-by receivership. (Kirkus Reviews)

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