Author:Douglas Reeman
If you like nail-biting tension, all-guns-blazing action and high-octane drama, then this historical adventure novel from multi-million copy bestselling author Douglas Reeman is perfect for you. Fans of Clive Cussler, Bernard Cornwell and Wilbur Smith will not be disappointed.
'One of our foremost writers of naval fiction' - Sunday Times
'A terrific nautical yarn from one of the best Naval authors' -- ***** Reader review
'Another romping good yarn by my favourite author. The only trouble is when I start reading, its hard to put it down :-)' -- ***** Reader review
'A must read' -- ***** Reader review
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The Allies are poised for the invasion of Italy.
Yet the Germans hold a vital card: a floating dock - the only one in the Adriatic large enough to take a major warship. Moored at a small port near Rimini, it is exposed, vulnerable.
It must be destroyed before the Germans can tow it to a safer harbour. Air, surface and conventional submarine attacks are out of the question.
Only one team can do the job and still stand a chance of surviving - the crew of HM Midget Submarine XE 51...
A brutal, devastatingly honest story of the trenches that somehow retains its humour, and its poetry, to the end
—— Independent, Best Books of 2015An unusual, original and charming addition to that great army of WWI novels
—— The TimesA century after the Great War, Schlump reappears in Jamie Bulloch's excellent new translation and the extraordinary story of its rediscovery probably warrants a novel of its own...exceptional
—— IndependentOne of the great First World War novels, about a German soldier in a French village, who falls in love with it. It’s full of criticism of how the war was conducted by Germany, so when Hitler came in, it was burnt.
—— Michael Morpurgo , Daily MailThe best of German war books so far
—— J. B. PriestleySchlump…was considered anti-nationalistic, anti-heroic, philanthropic, pacifist, pro-French, humanistic, European, quite good-humoured and well-written. A bright book from a dark time… The book burners were completely right: an un-German book
—— Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungGrimm’s major achievement is his ability to balance such unsentimental accounts of people’s wartime sufferings alongside the unfailing delight of Schlump’s gauche charm
—— New Books in GermanA thoroughly unconventional First World War novel, part fable, part documentary […] non-nationalistic, Francophile, astute, romantic and accurate
—— FAS[Grimm] combines elements of the picaresque with all the bleakness of First World War literature
—— Stuttgarter Zeitung
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