Storm Force to Narvik: The Nicholas Everard World War II Saga Book 1

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by Alexander Fullerton


  One dinghy and one purloined skiff.

  “Aye aye, sir. Bosun’s mate—”

  “Midships.”

  “Midships, sir!”

  He checked the compass, and told Jarratt, “Steer two-two-oh.” Then he raised his glasses again to study that activity inshore. He warned himself, in dread of what was coming now, Don’t count your chickens …

  The air was like frozen steel, but he’d begun to sweat. For the first time in twenty years he was aware of being truly, deeply frightened.

  POSTSCRIPT

  The episode of Gauntlet ramming a German heavy cruiser is based on Glowworm’s single-handed action against Hipper at the same place and time. Glowworm was, of course, alone and the circumstances were entirely different. Thirty-five of her ship’s company survived and were picked up by Hipper, but her captain, Lieutenant-Commander G.B. Roope RN, was not one of them. He was later awarded a posthumous VC. The same decoration was awarded, also posthumously, to Captain B.A.W Warburton-Lee, who led the Second Flotilla’s attack on Narvik on 10 April.

  Selected Historical Fiction Published by McBooks Press

  BY ALEXANDER KENT

  The Complete Midshipman Bolitho

  Stand Into Danger

  In Gallant Company

  Sloop of War

  To Glory We Steer

  Command a King’s Ship

  Passage to Mutiny

  With All Despatch

  Form Line of Battle!

  Enemy in Sight!

  The Flag Captain

  Signal-Close Action!

  The Inshore Squadron

  A Tradition of Victory

  Success to the Brave

  Colours Aloft!

  Honour This Day

  The Only Victor

  Beyond the Reef

  The Darkening Sea

  For My Country’s Freedom

  Cross of St George

  Sword of Honour

  Second to None

  Relentless Pursuit

  Man of War

  Heart of Oak

  In the King’s Name

  BY PHILIP MCCUTCHAN

  Halfhyde at the Bight of Benin

  Halfhyde’s Island

  Halfhyde and the Guns of Arrest

  Halfhyde to the Narrows

  Halfhyde for the Queen

  Halfhyde Ordered South

  Halfhyde on Zanatu

  BY JAN NEEDLE

  A Fine Boy for Killing

  The Wicked Trade

  The Spithead Nymph

  BY BROOS CAMPBELL

  No Quarter

  The War of Knives

  Peter Wicked

  BY C.N. PARKINSON

  The Guernseyman

  Devil to Pay

  The Fireship

  Touch and Go

  So Near So Far

  Dead Reckoning

  BY DUDLEY POPE

  Ramage

  Ramage & The Drumbeat

  Ramage & The Freebooters

  Governor Ramage R.N.

  Ramage’s Prize

  Ramage & The Guillotine

  Ramage’s Diamond

  Ramage’s Mutiny

  Ramage & The Rebels

  The Ramage Touch

  Ramage’s Signal

  Ramage & The Renegades

  Ramage’s Devil

  Ramage’s Trial

  Ramage’s Challenge

  Ramage at Trafalgar

  Ramage & The Saracens

  Ramage & The Dido

  BY V.A. STUART

  Victors and Lords

  The Sepoy Mutiny

  Massacre at Cawnpore

  The Cannons of Lucknow

  The Heroic Garrison

  The Valiant Sailors

  The Brave Captains

  Hazard’s Command

  Hazard of Huntress

  Hazard in Circassia

  Victory at Sebastopol

  Guns to the Far East

  Escape from Hell

  BY JAMES L. NELSON

  The Only Life That Mattered

  BY SETH HUNTER

  The Time of Terror

  The Tide of War

  The Price of Glory

  BY DOUGLAS W. JACOBSON

  Night of Flames

  The Katyn Order

  BY JULIAN STOCKWIN

  Kydd

  Artemis

  Seaflower

  Mutiny

  Quarterdeck

  Tenacious

  Command

  The Admiral’s Daughter

  The Privateer’s Revenge

  Invasion

  Victory

  Conquest

  BY DEWEY LAMBDIN

  The French Admiral

  The Gun Ketch

  HMS Cockerel

  A King’s Commander

  Jester’s Fortune

  BY JOHN BIGGINS

  A Sailor of Austria

  The Emperor’s Coloured Coat

  The Two-Headed Eagle

  Tomorrow the World

  BY ALEXANDER FULLERTON

  Storm Force to Narvik

  Last Lift from Crete

  All the Drowning Seas

  A Share of Honour

  The Torch Bearers

  The Gatecrashers

  BY DAVID DONACHIE

  The Devil’s Own Luck

  The Dying Trade

  A Hanging Matter

  An Element of Chance

  The Scent of Betrayal

  A Game of Bones

  BY JAMES DUFFY

  Sand of the Arena

  The Fight for Rome

 

 

 


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