Book description
The Battlecruiser - in their time this class of ships was considered
one of the great triumphs of the Royal Navy, as swift as a destroyer
but packing a deadly firepower equal to any ship afloat. But the ships
had one fatal flaw: their armour could be pierced by a single enemy
shell. The Battle of Jutland exposed this Achilles' heel, then further
disasters followed in the next world war with the tragic sinkings of
the Hood and Repulse.
1943 - Of all her class, HMS Reliant and one other have
survived. Reliant has the reputation of a lucky ship but when
Captain Guy Sherbrooke joins her he knows he could be her last
captain. As Britain prepares to invade occupied Europe, Reliant
will be thrown head first into the conflagration. All those who sail
in her know that there can be no half measures: only death or glory
awaits HMS Reliant.
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 more than twenty bestselling historical novels featuring
Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.
