David Beaty

The Gun Garden (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In the unpredictable maelstrom of war, heroes can come from the unlikeliest places...

Malta, 1942 - a thousand miles from friends, isolated, besieged, and slowly being starved into surrender...

Into that hopeless situation fly two Wellington aircraft equipped with long-range radar. One is captained by a dedicated, veteran RAF pilot. The other by Peter Forrester, a hastily trained, carefree twenty-one-year-old.

Their role is to find enemy convoys proceeding at night from Italy to Africa, and to lead a tiny naval force of cruiser and destroyer through the darkness to the unsuspecting target. The fate of a nation depends on their success...

Climaxed by the mounting crescendo of a night battle at sea, this is a delicately balanced novel, caught between extremes of love and war, between guns and gardens.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781788639910
• Artikelnr.: 58649677

Autorenporträt

David Beaty was a former RAF pilot, novelist and non-fiction writer whose books about flying earned him worldwide reputation.

Born in Ceylon in 1919, Beaty was educated at Kingswood, Bath and Merton College, Oxford. He became an RAF pilot during WWII, where he excelled, but gave up a life in the Air Force to write full-time. However, his experiences informed his many novels. In 1960, Cone of Silence was made into a film starring Peter Cushing and George Sanders. He was on the staff of the College of Air Training, was an associate member of the British Airline Pilots' Association, and a Companion of the Royal Aeronautical Society.