Book description
1914-1918 ... This is the third book in the Blackwood saga. For three
generations, members of the Blackwood family served the Royal Marines
with distinction. With the outbreak of World War I, at last comes
Jonathan Blackwood's turn to carry the family name into battle.
But as the young marines embark for the Dardanelles, and a new kind
of warfare, it dawns on them that the days of scarlet coats and an
unchanging tradition of honour and glory have gone forever. First in
Gallipoli, and two years later at Flanders, comes their horrifying
initiation into a wholesale slaughter for which no training could ever
have prepared them.
Caught up in the savagery of a conflict beyond any officer's
control, Blackwood's future rests on the 'horizon' - the dark lip of
the trench which was the last fateful sight for so many.
Douglas Reeman did convoy duty in the navy in the Atlantic, the
Arctic, and the North Sea. He has written over thirty novels under his
own name and twenty-seven bestselling historical novels featuring
Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.
