Discover For Valour Engineered By Douglas Reeman Published As Paper Edition

Enjoyed

Another Douglas Reeman, Ive read them all my life, every mess deck onboard had the paperback versions but its good to reread them.

Great characters, accurate description of life onboard and always a good story,
This one is no exception, Once again, destroyers saved the day, More shore time in this book then usual, Typical romance for a Reeman book, Good sea action parts. By GR's rating systemstar I did not like it,

Reeman's books can be hit or miss and this one is a miss, This is one of the books where he tries to create drama from the get go, And as I have mentioned, you need to establish the characters first, It's no good trying to create drama first because the readers are not vested in the characters yet so they don't care about the drama.


Furthermore I came here for WWnaval fiction, not some relationship between a guy I don't know and don't care about and his exwife.
And after countless changes of POVs I despaired getting to the WWnaval fiction part and just dnf'd.
I think it could have been a good book but the manufactured drama was just so much cringe.
Good historical naval yarn I really enjoyed this story, It wasn't a lot driven story but more of a themed driven story and I normally struggle with these types but this one did it well.
It had a good amount of action but the theme Valour was the real action!,Stars! Reeman still awesome

Authentic and gritty is the best way to describe Doug Reemans works.
The only problem I had was at the beginning they had his XO as having an affair with the leading characters wife.
Hard to believe. Odds are long for the British destroyers assigned to escort vital northern convoys through the bitter Arctic Sea in the bloodiest days of WWII.
Commander Graham Martineau, still haunted by the loss of his ship and crew to Nazi destroyers, must take on a new command: the Tribal Class destroyer Hakka.
Reeman's stories are always enjoyable, sometimes a little too predictable but always with immediacy and realism, AKA sitelink Alexander Kent. Douglas Edward Reeman was a British author who has written many historical

fiction books on the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars.
Reeman joined the Royal Navy in, at the age of, and served during World War II and the Korean War.
He eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant, In addition to being an author, Reeman has also taught the art of navigation for yachting and served as a technical advisor for films.
Douglas married author Kimberley Jordan Reeman in, Reemans debut novel, A Prayer for the Ship was published in, His pseudonym sitelink Alexander Kent was the name of a friend and naval officer who died during the Second World War.
Reeman is most famous for his series of Na AKA sitelink Alexander Kent, Douglas Edward Reeman was a British author who has written many historical fiction books on the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars.
Reeman joined the Royal Navy in, at the age of, and served during World War II and the Korean War.
He eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant, In addition to being an author, Reeman has also taught the art of navigation for yachting and served as a technical advisor for films.
Douglas married author Kimberley Jordan Reeman in, Reeman's debut novel, A Prayer for the Ship was published in, His pseudonym sitelink Alexander Kent was the name of a friend and naval officer who died during the Second World War.
Reeman is most famous for his series of Napoleonic naval stories, whose central character is Richard Bolitho, and, later, his nephew, Adam.
He also wrote a series of novels about several generations of the Blackwood family who served in the Royal Marines from thes to thes, and a non fiction account of his World War II experiences, D Day : A Personal Reminiscence.
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