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Item: THE GATECRASHERS by ALEXANDER FULLERTON. 1st Edition First Printing ISBN: 0718123786 297 page hardback book (22cm x 14cm - 497gram) published by Michael Joseph 1984.
Dust-jacket reads:
Horribly cramped, it lurched sickeningly while being towed and tended to be dripping wet inside. The X-craft midget submarine was hardly the obvious choice of vessel to pitch against the mighty battleship Tirpitz in her Norwegian lair. Like pitching a tadpole against a whale; but in this case, the whale had a soft underbelly and the tadpole a pair of two-ton explosive stings like blisters on its sides. If the sub could survive its nightmarish 1,000-mile haul across the North Sea, Paul Everard would have his chance to gatecrash the fjords - past minefields, patrol craft, shore defences and steel nets - and cripple the ship which Churchill had called `the Beast'. Even if he succeeded, the chances of escaping alive were slim ...
If he failed, Nick Everard, commanding Arctic convoy PQ19, was in for a pounding. None of his ships could hope to match the firepower of the Tirpitz or pierce her fifteen-inch armour. As The Gatecrashers draws to its thunderous climax, father and son, their lives balancing on a knife-edge, face their final, most searching test. The Gatecrashers is based on the true story of Operation Source: six X-craft crossed the North Sea in September 1943 to attack the Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Lutzow in Altenfjord, where they were kept out of bomber range behind formidable defences. Although The Gatecrashers stands on its own as a novel, it is also the ninth and last in the Everard series of naval adventures, which started with Nick as a somewhat bloody-minded midshipman at Jutland in 1916. Although fictional, the setting of each story is historically and technically accurate. Captain J. E. Moore, Editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, has written: `I have not found this splendid authenticity in any naval fiction since C. S. Forester's heyday.
Condition: Dust-jacket excellent/near mint condition; very minor handling marks to rear, very clean & bright, not price-clipped. Hardback mint condition. Pages excellent/near mint condition; very clean & bright.
Collectable 1st Edition
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