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Loading... To Risks Unknown (1969)by Douglas Reeman
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I read this as a child amongst several Douglas Reeman novels and have just re-read it. It is a good 'boys own' adventure about the captain and crew of HMS Thistle, a corvette diverted off Atlantic convy duties to be part of a special force assisting the Yugoslav resistance. Needless to say most of the characters are flawed in some way, there's some skulduggery within the special force and some love interest. The action ranges from Portsmouth to the Adriatic with Malta and North Africa. The author writes well and makes you feel that you are there in the action and keeps you interested to the end. no reviews | add a review
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"The year- 1943. Now there was to be no more retreat for Britain and her Allies. At last the war was to be carried into enemy territory. nd, from captured bases and makeshift harbours in North Africa, The Royal Navy's Special Force was to be the probe and the spearhead of the advance. o this unorthodox war came the corvette H.M.S, Thistle and her commanding officer, John Crispin. Both were veterans, she from the Atlantic, he from the trauma of seeing his last command and her company brutally destroyed. oon they would be fighting amongst remote Adriatic islands, helping the partisans and guerrillas with whom they had little in common, except an overwhelming common hatred of the enemy who had attacked and destroyed their countries. hip and crew had to be welded into a single fighting unit. And it had to be done, not in training, but on active duty. No library descriptions found. |
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The plot includes descriptions of the nasty war that took place in Yugoslavia in 1943. Includes some vividly described sea battles as only Reeman can do them. ( )