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 A Flock of Ships - Brian Callison
Newest Review: ... a first novel. In fact, it was a bestseller and Callison went on to write plenty of other novels, most of them to do with the ... more  ... sea (sticking unrepentantly with the formula of his debut title he has also written; 'A Plague of Sailors' 'A Web of Salvage' and 'A Thunder of Crude')
Callison was a merchant seaman for many years - though after WWII - and the language and descriptions are therefore completely authentic. I imagine he served with some veterans who had some stories to tell (30,000 men killed, nearly 3,000 ships sunk, almost all by torpedo). But, despite the superficial similarities, he's no Joseph Conrad. He is, however, a very sol...more |
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A Flock of Ships - Brian Callison: A murder of boats (933 words)
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"I was eating a jam sandwich when the first ship in our group went down." So begins the personal log of Chief Officer Jonathan Kent of the M.V. Cyclops in 1941. Obviously, the British merchant fleet suffered terrible losses in the Second World War yet what follows is less a naval war story and more a mystery or thriller set on a WWII merchant ship. A small convey of three, very fast merchant ships are racing from Britain through the South Atlantic, heading for Australia. They are protected by a Royal Navy corvette, fitted with depth charges for anti-submarine warfare. After one of the ships is sunk, the Captain of the M.V. Cyclops ... Read the complete review
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