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Sixty minutes for St. George / Alexander Fullerton.
Van Pelt Library PR6056.U435 S59 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fullerton, Alexander, 1924-2008.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Everard, Nick (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Everard, Nick (Fictitious character).
- Great Britain--History, Naval--20th century--Fiction.
- Great Britain.
- Naval history.
- Zeebrugge-Ostend Raids, 1918--Fiction.
- Zeebrugge-Ostend Raids, 1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 308 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Sixty minutes for Saint George
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Soho Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Young Nick Everard leads the raid on Zeebrugge, termed by Churchill "the finest feat of arms of the Great War." Nick Everard is Executive Officer of the destroyer "Mackerel, which has spent the winter months of 1917-18 endlessly patrolling the Straits of Dover to prevent German ships from reaching the Atlantic. Despite his lack of respect for his captain, Everard achieves successes in action. Then he is summoned for top-secret special duty: to command a raid to capture a German trawler's crew and bring them back to Dover. The raid is prefatory to the St. George's Day operation in which, in the space of an hour, the German naval fortifications at Zeebrugge are destroyed. And Everard, at the age of twenty-two, is rewarded with his first destroyer command.
- ISBN:
- 1569472939
- OCLC:
- 48761764
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