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Never Too Old for a Pierhead Jump
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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Summary
The year is 1944, and Lieutenant Harry Gilmour is recovering in Beirut from an ill-fated British campaign to seize the Greek Islands.
After four years at sea, he is expecting a shore job as his next appointment. Instead, a flash signal from C-in-C Mediterranean arrives: Report to Alexandria and assume command of HM Submarine Saraband.
His new command has just arrived there en route to the Indian Ocean and the war against Japan. But there’s been trouble on board - "conduct prejudicial to naval discipline" - and the skipper and first lieutenant have been summarily removed. Now it’s up to Harry Gilmour to pick up the pieces.
With a sullen, uncooperative crew, Harry must navigate Japanese convoy routes through the shallow, treacherous waters of the Malay Archipelago. There, endless, sweltering hunts for targets through the island chains leave Saraband’s crew even more exhausted and demoralized. Yet if they are to survive against an Imperial Japanese Navy growing in anti-submarine expertise, Harry must turn them into a taut fighting machine.
Because waiting for them, as the war in the Far East grinds toward its final conclusion, is a mission as daring and audacious as it is vital. One that could deliver the Royal Navy’s most spectacular success of the war.
David Black is the author of the Harry Gilmour series of novels set in the Royal Navy submarine service during the Second World War. He also wrote All the Freshness of the Morning, a fictionalized account of President John F. Kennedy’s epic wartime service as skipper of the US Navy torpedo boat PT-109 during the Solomon Islands campaign against the Japanese in the South Pacific. Black is a former UK national newspaper journalist and TV documentary producer. He now lives in Argyll and writes full-time.
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- Diogo M. Liberal
- 12-09-22
A great finale
A great finale for a great serie that provided both entertaining and informative on the way that the "trade" performed during WWII. The book is great and gives interesting closure to several aspects of the series while encompassing a tour via the east and the difficulties of operating in such a theather of operations.
I have only praise for this series that is well written and researched as well as a great narrator that allowing to navigate through the ironies and quirks of the english language of which I'm not a native speaker.
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- Ian
- 30-01-22
Great WW2 Series
This has been a great series and I've loved every minute of it one of the best WW2 story's I've read in years
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- Dr N.S.Salisbury
- 18-11-24
The way Harry matured into the roll of responsibility felt very authentic. So my title is The Making of a Submarine Captain.
Liked the way the two sides of Harry’s life are very compartmented most of the time but can overlap occasionally. The tensions of battle felt very compelling but I’m pleased that the author didn’t make the results 100% That was more realistic.
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- "evilpanda"
- 05-05-23
Great series.
Read all these books and throughly enjoyed them all. Believable and sympathetic characters, accurate plot and profound undertones. A good read.
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- Hamburgerpatty
- 28-11-21
Thank you Mr Black
This has been a humdinger of a series. Great hooks and cliffhangers, memorable characters, just the right amount of humour, lively dialogues, And what a sense of place, Over the series we've been in frozen northern waters, the Atlantic, the Caribbean and now finally the Indian Ocean, the Malacca straights and other south sea locations. Harry and Co have a serious job to do for they're now up against the Japanese.. And so once again the listener is led into WW2 submarine life, complete with the cramped quarters, the entertainments, the enemies, the friends, the losses, the loyalites, the disloyalties, the maps, the charts, the smell of diesel, the weight of water, the food, the sweat, the reunions, the partings, the romances, the dances and the actions of a mad dog. And in most every moment the spectre of death lurks.
Thank you, thank you Mr Black for a most rewarding series of novels.
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- David W
- 15-01-23
Engage the enemy more closely
I enjoyed the entire series, this last adventure didn't disappoint thank you. The narration was very well done and fitted the book throughout thank you. I recommend this book/series
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- St piran lad
- 26-09-22
Amazing continuation of series
I’m a very big fan of the Harry Gilmore series. Very good story. Well thought out. Great action and character development.
Can’t wait for the next in the series
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- Anonymous User
- 31-12-21
Excellent
This series is among the best naval fiction I've heard, and I have heard many.
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- NICK cochrane
- 13-03-22
Great story
brilliant book enthralling till the end. Great addition to the series and well worth getting into
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