C. S. Forester
The Good Shepherd
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2022 Reprint of the 1955 Edition. The Good Shepherd is a 1955 nautical and war novel by C. S. Forester. First published in the U.S., it illustrates the difficulties of the Battle of the Atlantic: the struggle against the sea, the enemy, and the exhaustion brought on by constant vigilance. It also details the problems of the early radar and ASDIC equipment available and the poor communications between the fleet and Admiralty using HF Radio and early manual cryptography. A film adaptation was released in 2020. ReviewsA high and glittering excitement...[Forester] has no master and few peers. -The New York TimesNothing more exciting has been lau…
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2022 Reprint of the 1955 Edition. The Good Shepherd is a 1955 nautical and war novel by C. S. Forester. First published in the U.S., it illustrates the difficulties of the Battle of the Atlantic: the struggle against the sea, the enemy, and the exhaustion brought on by constant vigilance. It also details the problems of the early radar and ASDIC equipment available and the poor communications between the fleet and Admiralty using HF Radio and early manual cryptography. A film adaptation was released in 2020. ReviewsA high and glittering excitement...[Forester] has no master and few peers. -The New York TimesNothing more exciting has been launched since Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. -The GuardianC. S. Forester is the best living writer about the sea. -TimeAction, tension, tingling suspense...The greatest adventure story to come out of World War II. -Life MagazineAbout the AuthorC. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899. After studying medicine, he rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. On the outbreak of World War II, he worked for the British Ministry of Information in America writing propaganda. His most notable works were the twelve Horatio Hornblower books, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen. His novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. He died in 1966.
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- ISBN: 978-1-68422-682-5
- EAN: 9781684226825
- Produktnummer: 38557279
- Verlag: Martino Fine Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.5 cm 455 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 455
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