Winged escort / / Douglas Reeman
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| Autore: |
Reeman Douglas
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| Titolo: |
Winged escort / / Douglas Reeman
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| Pubblicazione: | Ithaca, New York : , : McBooks Press, Inc., , 2017 |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (311 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 823/.914 |
| Soggetto topico: | World War, 1939-1945 - Naval operations, British |
| Fighter pilots - Great Britain | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain History, Naval 20th century Fiction |
| Classificazione: | FIC047000FIC002000 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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. They were typically half the length and a third the displacement of larger fleet carriers. While they were slower, carried fewer planes, and were less well armed and armored, escort carriers were cheaper and could be built quickly, which was their principal advantage. At twenty-six, fighter pilot Tim Rowan, RNVR, is already a veteran of many campaigns. Now he joins the new, American-made escort (or "jeep") carrier HMS Growler, the flagship of a task force protecting Allied convoys sailing the Arctic route to supply Soviet Russia. The service in the Arctic is harrowing, and not all of Rowan's adversaries are German. In late 1944, Growler is transferred to the Indian Ocean and faces the Kamikaze, experiencing vicious onslaughts"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Winged escort |
| ISBN: | 1-59013-734-5 |
| 1-59013-733-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910165060403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Modern naval fiction library.