The White Guns - Hardcover

Reeman, Douglas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0434626341 ISBN 13: 9780434626342

Verlag: William Heinemann Ltd, 1989

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Physical description; 325 pages. Notes; NOT price-clipped. First edition and first printing. Summary; From the storyteller of the sea comes a new adventure set at the devastating time just after the Second World War, when the once fearsome German naval harbours lie in ruins. There will be days when you wonder at and question some of the risks you had to take, the sacrifices you were forced to offer in the face of death.' Kiel Harbour, 1945 - the war in Europe is at an end. But for Lieutenant Vere Marriott and the men of MGB 801, moored amid a nightmare of devastation, it is an uneasy, unsettled peace. New assignments ashore and afloat mean fresh tensions and conflicting emotions. For some, glory now takes second place to profit. For others, revenge at last sems within their grasp. No one is shooting at Marriott now. But dangers come thick and fast - from confrontation with the Russians to his feelings for Fraulein Geghim. There is more to victory than survival ... Subjects; World War, (1939-1945) - Germany - Peace - Fiction. Kiel Bay (Germany) - Fiction. Second World War fiction ; Modern fiction. Fiction / War & Military. Fiction / Historical. Fiction / General. Genres; Fiction. Sea stories.

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From the storyteller of the sea comes a new adventure set at the devastating time just after the Second World War, when the once fearsome German naval harbours lie in ruins.

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A novel set at the end of the Second World War in which Lieutenant Vere Marriott faces new dangers, from confrontation with the Russians to his feelings for Fraulein Geghin, and finds there is more to victory than survival.

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• Verlag: William Heinemann Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0434626341
• ISBN 13: 9780434626342
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336