The Pride and the Anguish

NOVEMBER 1941Lieutenant Ralph Trewin, D.S.C., arrives at Singapore as second-in-command of the shallow-draught gunboat, H.M.S. Porcupine. To Trewin, still shocked from wounds received during the evacuation of Crete, the gunboat and her five elderly consorts seem to symbolise the ignorance and blind optimism he finds in Singapore. And the captain of the Porcupine is as unwilling as the rest to take heed of Trewin's alarm, for to him the gunboat represents his last chance.The following month, the Japanese invade Malaya. In three months Singapore, the impregnable fortress, knows the humiliation of surrender. Through the misery and despair of this bloody campaign Trewin and his captain are forced to draw on each other's beliefs and weaknesses, and together they weld the little gunboat into a symbol of bravery and pride.

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Douglas Reeman

Summary

November 1941 Lieutenant Ralph Trewin, D S C, arrives at Singapore as second-in-command of the shallow-draught gunboat, H M S Porcupine. Through the misery and despair of this bloody campaign Trewin and his captain are forced to draw on each other's beliefs and weaknesses, and together they weld the gunboat into a symbol of bravery and pride.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Reeman
• Publisher: Arrow
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 03.10.2013
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780099591559
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959155-9
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions (packing): 11.2 x 17.8 x 2.1 cm
• Subjects: Singapur, FICTION / War & Military, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Historical / World War II, FICTION / Sea Stories, Pazifischer Ozean, War & combat fiction, Singapore, Naval forces & warfare, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), War, combat and military adventure fiction, Naval forces and warfare, Pacific Ocean, Periode des Zweiten Weltkrieges (ca. 1938 bis ca. 1946)