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The Destroyers

By: Douglas Reeman
Narrated by: David Rintoul
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From the author of The First to Land, a novel set during World War II. They called them the Scrapyard Flotilla. After a quarter of a century of service, the eight destroyers had seen all kinds of action.

Now they were to be used in raids to open the way for the invasion of Occupied Europe.

©1974 Douglas Reeman (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Historical Fiction Fiction
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Excellent read, an excitng action at every turn of the page. Ideal for old sea salts like me!

Exciting, full of action.

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just the thing for when one needs to distract oneself from the bigger issues of the day. True British navy through and through.

another Mans book

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One of the best of all his many books.

Such a shame people like David M who gave such a bizarre review have no imagination, compassion or understanding and worse still such ‘reviews’ can’t be down voted.

Excellent

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The book is of its time and shows the attitudes of those caught up in war and how they dealt with unimaginable loss as well as victory. A bit drawn out but I guess there were long pauses of nothing between horrific battles. Very brave men who should never be forgotten.

A bit drawn out but fascinating nonetheless

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This was the first of Douglas Reeman’s books that I’ve read. The plot was somewhat implausible but well narrated.

Well narrated war story; a bit charactured

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