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Winged Escort
Winged Escort
Sep 21, 2024 1:02 PM

Author:Douglas Reeman

Winged Escort

As the grim years of the Second World War go by, the destruction of Allied shipping mounts. Out of the terrible loss of men and ships, the escort carrier is born. At twenty-six, fighter pilot Tim Rowan, RNVR, is already a veteran of many campaigns. Now he joins the escort carrier, GROWLER, a posting which takes him first to the bitter waters of the Arctic and all the misery of convoy duty to Murmansk, and then south to the Indian Ocean and the strange new terror of the Japanese Kamikaze. . .

Reviews

Malouf is subtle, lyric and insistent. His stories enter the memory and stay there.

—— Irish Times

Simply brilliant and naturalistically told

—— Guardian

The continuities of nature are set against the obscenities of war...to contruct a memorable book

—— Sunday Telegraph

The novel of a poet without a single trace of overwriting

—— Daily Telegraph

Joyously madcap

—— Publishers Weekly

Part Candide, part Huck Finn and a whole lot of Andy Griffith, [Gump] makes his case in a voice all his own

—— Los Angeles Times

Has many pleasures to offer

—— New York Times
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