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Crete, May 1941. Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham's signal to his fleet was 'Stick it out'. But the ships, with no air cover of their own, were having to run the gauntlet of 2,000 German bombers without respite, and with only darkness in which to lick their wounds. Nick Everard commands the destroyer Tuareg, and during the Cretan operations finds himself in company with the cruiser Carnarvon in which his son Jack Everard is navigator. Nick is faced with what looks at first like an insoluble problem - how to 'lift' a cut-off body of troops, plus an Australian field hospital with a staff of thirty nurses, from under Germans' noses on the wrong side of the island, where dawn can only find the ships still well inside Stuka territory. By this time Captain Sir Nicholas Everard commands not only Tuareg but the whole flotilla of battered, battle-scarred destroyers.You May Also Be Interested In...
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