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Kleber's Convoy
It was the custom of the German Naval Command in the Second World War to name Allied convoys after the U-Boat commander who made the first sighting report. Kapitanleutnant Johan Kleber sighted convoy JW137, Murmansk bound, as it battered its way through the freezing storms and gloom of an Arctic winter; and so Kleber's Convoy it became. The U-Boat's signals were intercepted by the Admiralty in London and passed back to the commanders of the British escort vessels; notably to Lieutenant-Commander Redman of the destroyer Vengeful. The name of the U-Boat commander was for him a painful shock: years before a Hans Kleber had saved his life on a Swiss ski-slope, he had fallen in love with the Germ...
The White Schooner
In this dramatic and powerful novel, Antony Trew draws upon his own naval experience for an exciting adventure set against the backdrop of the sea. For nearly a year, Charles Black has been stalking his prey. Now, on the lovely island of Ibiza, he is very close to his victim. When the lean white schooner Snowgoose sails into the harbor, Black knows that it is time to move in for the kill...
The White Schooner
In this dramatic and powerful novel Antony Trew demonstrates, yet again, his mastery of the novel set against the backdrop of the sea. From beginning to end, The White Schooner is a compulsively readable story. For nearly a year Charles Black has been stalking his prey and now, on the lovely island of Ibiza, he is very close to his victim. When the lean white schooner Snowgoose sails into the harbour, Black knows it is time to move in for the kill...
Sea Fever
Tells the story of this epic race, of the extraordinary relationship between the yachtsman driven by a compulsive obsession to win and the girl whose presence on board faced him with ruin.
The Antonov Project
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The Moonraker Mutiny
A tired old freighter, the Moonraker, is homeward bound from Freemantle to Mauritius. Haunted by his past, Captain Stone seeks solace in day-dreams and the gin bottle in the seclusion of his cabin. His pretty niece, Susie, flirts nervously with Australian passage worker Hank Casey and Italian mate Carlo Frascatti growls and grumbles at the motley crew. Then the calm of a humdrum voyage is shattered when the radio operator picks up the warning of a cyclone ahead. The panic-stricken crew turns on their captain and abandons ship. Those left behind now begin a desperate struggle to keep the battered hulk afloat as a small coaster and an ocean salvage tug are each determined to profit from the Mooraker's disaster.
Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove
King of the Cold War crisis film, Dr. Strangelove became a cultural touchstone from the moment of its release in 1964. The duck-and-cover generation saw it as a satire on nuclear issues and Cold War thinking. Subsequent generations, removed from the film’s historical moment, came to view it as a quasi-documentary about an unfathomable secret world. Sean M. Maloney uses Dr. Strangelove and other genre classics like Fail Safe and The Bedford Incident to investigate a curious pop cultural contradiction. Nuclear crisis films repeatedly portrayed the failures of the Cold War’s deterrent system. Yet the system worked. What does this inconsistency tell us about the genre? What does it tell us about the deterrent system, for that matter? Blending film analysis with Cold War history, Maloney looks at how the celluloid crises stack up against reality—or at least as much of reality as we can reconstruct from these films with confidence. The result is a daring intellectual foray that casts new light on Dr. Strangelove, one of the Cold War era’s defining films.
The Moonraker Mutiny
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