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The Good Shepherd, Forester C. S.
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
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- Titel
- The Good Shepherd
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Forester C. S.
- Verlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0241475279
- ISBN13
- 9780241475270
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Historische Romane, Abenteuer, Klassiker, Kriegsliteratur, Kriege, Zweiter Weltkrieg
- Bewertung
- 3,9 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- THE GRIPPING NAVAL THRILLER, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING TOM HANKS _______ 1942. America enters the war and an untested officer receives his first wartime command . . . Ploughing through icy, submarine-infested North Atlantic seas is a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships, carrying vital Allied supplies. In charge is Commander Krause, a grizzled but unproven veteran of the U.S. Navy. Over the next forty-eight hours he will stay on watch aboard the bridge of his destroyer as the convoy is hounded by a murderous wolf pack of German U-boats determined to sink every ship without trace. But armed with extraordinary courage and grit, Commander Krause will battle the U-boats, tiredness, self-doubt and self-reproach, as he desperately tries to protect the ships and lives under his command . . . This classic wartime novel is a thrillingly taut tale of bravery and determination against all odds, set during the darkest moments of the Second World War. _______ Praise for C. S. Forester 'Action, tension, tingling suspense . . . The greatest adventure story to come out of World War II' Life Magazine 'I recommend Forester to every literate I know' Ernest Hemingway 'I find Hornblower admirable, vastly entertaining' Sir Winston Churchill