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Product Description: In HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour, an old sloop, homeward bound, is torpedoed, leaving her guns out of action, more than three quarters of her crew dead, and radio contact impossible. But her valiant captain steadfastly refuses to surrender his ship...read more

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9781504702201 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 8, 2016), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour, an old sloop, homeward bound, is torpedoed, leaving her guns out of action, more than three quarters of her crew dead, and radio contact impossible.
9781504702218 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 8, 2016), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour, an old sloop, homeward bound, is torpedoed, leaving her guns out of action, more than three quarters of her crew dead, and radio contact impossible.

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9781504702195 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 8, 2016), cover price $69.00

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Product Description: Crime, Mystery, Adventure, Thrills – all to be found in Nicholas Monsarrat’s short story collection commencing with ‘The Ship that Died of Shame’, where a former Navy gunboat is used for smuggling by ex-servicemen down on their luck in post-war society...read more

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9780755142590 | New edition (House of Stratus Ltd, April 22, 2014), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Crime, Mystery, Adventure, Thrills – all to be found in Nicholas Monsarrat’s short story collection commencing with ‘The Ship that Died of Shame’, where a former Navy gunboat is used for smuggling by ex-servicemen down on their luck in post-war society.

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Product Description: H.M. Frigate Colony – American built, British-manned – alert, seaworthy and ready. This is the true story of Lieutenant-Commander Nicholas Monsarrat’s taking over the command of a Frigate in World War II. Written in his usual crisp and gripping way, it tells the story with full recognition of the men who served with him...read more

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9780755142583 | New edition (House of Stratus Ltd, April 22, 2014), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: H.

Product Description: Within the precarious conditions of the Cold War, diplomats Smith and Jones are not to be trusted. But although their files demonstrate evidence of numerous indiscretions and drunkenness, they have friends in high places who ensure that this doesn't count against them, and they are sent across the Iron Curtain...read more

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9781842623664 | Large print edition (Dales Large Print, March 31, 2005), cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Within the precarious conditions of the Cold War, diplomats Smith and Jones are not to be trusted.
9780891903499, titled "Smith and Jones" | Reprint edition (Amereon Ltd, June 1, 1989), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Within the precarious conditions of the Cold War, diplomats Smith and Jones are not to be trusted.

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9781842321553 | House of Stratus Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $10.95

A maritime adventure originally published in 1951. Set in the Second World War, two ships and their crews of about a hundred and fifty men are involved in defending Atlantic convoys against impossible odds.

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9780870210556 | Naval Inst Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A maritime adventure originally published in 1951.
9780708981719, titled "Cruel Sea" | Ulverscroft Large Print Books, February 1, 1984, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A novel as large as its theme - which is the War at Sea; as deep as its setting - the whole Atlantic; as human as the men who fought the packs of U-boats to bring the convoys through.
9780394420905, titled "The Cruel Sea." | Random House Inc, June 1, 1951, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This novel of sea-faring life focuses on the Battle of the North Atlantic during World War II

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9780141007328 | New edition (Gardners Books, June 27, 2002), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A maritime adventure originally published in 1951.
9781580800464 | Burford Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $18.95
9780553271287 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, February 1, 1988), cover price $3.95 | also contains The Healing Place: Where All Hurts Are Healed | About this edition: Darting back and forth across the icy North Atlantic, HMS Compass Rose played a deadly cat-and-mouse game with packs of German U-boats lying in wait beneath the ocean waves.

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9780886460259 | Dh Audio, November 1, 1985, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Darting back and forth across the icy North Atlantic, HMS Compass Rose played a deadly cat-and-mouse game with packs of German U-boats lying in wait beneath the ocean waves.
9780898451177 | Caedmon Audio Cassette, October 1, 1983, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A novel as large as its theme - which is the War at Sea; as deep as its setting - the whole Atlantic; as human as the men who fought the packs of U-boats to bring the convoys through.

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Product Description: As bombs pound Malta to dust, Father Salvatore--a simple priest, or kappillan, serving the poor--finds himself caught in the drama of World War Two. In the fragile safety of catacombs revealed by the explosions, he tends to the flood of homeless, starving, and frightened people seeking shelter, giving messages of inspiration and hope...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780854565641, titled "The Kappillan of Malta" | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, June 1, 1976), cover price $27.99 | About this edition: When, on the first day of the war against Italy in 1940, Father Salvatore went with his sacristan to the catacombs that were to shelter his flock in the terrible years of air-raids ahead, he took with him his ancient altar stone as a symbol of his faith; faith in God and in the indomitable spirit of the Maltese people.
9780688002435, titled "The Kappillan of Malta" | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1974, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: When, on the first day of the war against Italy in 1940, Father Salvatore went with his sacristan to the catacombs that were to shelter his flock in the terrible years of air-raids ahead, he took with him his ancient altar stone as a symbol of his faith; faith in God and in the indomitable spirit of the Maltese people.

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9780304358441 | Cassell, September 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: As bombs pound Malta to dust, Father Salvatore--a simple priest, or kappillan, serving the poor--finds himself caught in the drama of World War Two.

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Product Description: The first part of the autobiography, Breaking In, is of one of the most successful writers of the twentieth century, Nicholas Monsarrat. Monsarrat describes his privileged childhood in Liverpool, where his father was the greatest surgeon of his time, recalling all the small details of a provincial upbringing...read more

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9781842321485 | House of Stratus Ltd, April 1, 2001, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The first part of the autobiography, Breaking In, is of one of the most successful writers of the twentieth century, Nicholas Monsarrat.

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Nicholas Monsarrat, unquestionably the best writer on sea warfare during World War II, saw the horror firsthand as a frigate captain in the British Navy. In dramatic, vivid language, this unforgettable collection records the terrible years between 1940 and 1943. It includes the autobiographical It Was Cruel; A Ship to Remember, about the sinking of the Lancastria in 1940 (3,000 men lost their lives); and I Was There, HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour, and The Ship That Died of Shame--three short fictional pieces.

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9780304354443 | Cassell, March 1, 2001, cover price $9.95
9780583120852 | Academy Chicago Pub, February 1, 1983, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: Nicholas Monsarrat, unquestionably the best writer on sea warfare during World War II, saw the horror firsthand as a frigate captain in the British Navy.

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Product Description: This is Nicholas Monsarrat’s final masterpiece, an epic tale of the sea and seafaring from the sixteenth century to near the end of the twentieth. Told from the point of view of Mathew Lawe, a young Devon sailor who is cursed after a spectacular act of cowardice to wander “the wild waters till all the seas run dry,” it is historical fiction but beset by real events...read more

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9781842321508 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This is Nicholas Monsarrat’s final masterpiece, an epic tale of the sea and seafaring from the sixteenth century to near the end of the twentieth.
9780072345889, titled "Zoology: Customized" | Lab manual edition (McGraw-Hill College, August 1, 1997), cover price $36.60 | also contains Zoology: Customized

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Product Description: The sequel to The Tribe That Lost Its Head is a compelling story which charts the steady drift of a young African nation towards bankruptcy, chaos and barbarism. On the island of Pharamaul, a former British Protectorate, newly installed Prime Minister, Chief Dinamaula, celebrates Independence Day with his people, full of high hopes for the future...read more

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9781842321546 | House of Stratus Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The sequel to The Tribe That Lost Its Head is a compelling story which charts the steady drift of a young African nation towards bankruptcy, chaos and barbarism.

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Product Description: In 'H.M.S. Marlborough Will Enter Harbour', an old sloop, homeward bound, is torpedoed, leaving her guns out of action, more than three-quarters of her crew dead, and radio contact impossible. But her valiant captain steadfastly refuses to surrender his ship...read more

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9781842321478 | House of Stratus Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In 'H.

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Product Description: The turbulent Thirties, and all across Europe cry the discordant voices of hunger and death, most notably in Spain, where a civil war threatens to destroy the country. Aspiring writer, Marcus Hendrycks, has toyed with life for twenty-one years...read more

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9781842321584 | House of Stratus Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The turbulent Thirties, and all across Europe cry the discordant voices of hunger and death, most notably in Spain, where a civil war threatens to destroy the country.

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Product Description: The breathtaking island of Makassang, in the Java Sea, is the setting for this tremendous historical novel. It is a place both splendid and savage, where piracy, plundering and barbarism are rife. The ageing Rajah, threatened by native rebellion, enlists the help of Richard Marriott - baronet's son-turned-buccaneer - promising him a fortune to save his throne...read more

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9781842321614 | House of Stratus Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The breathtaking island of Makassang, in the Java Sea, is the setting for this tremendous historical novel.
9780330200462 | Academy Chicago Pub, September 1, 1983, cover price $5.95 | also contains Parliaments and Human Rights: Redressing the Democratic Deficit | About this edition: The breathtaking island of Makassang, in the Java Sea, is the setting for this tremendous historical novel.

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Product Description: Passion, conflict and infidelity are vividly depicted in this gripping tale of two people and their marriage. Set against the glittering background of glamorous high life in South Africa, New York and Barbados, an idealistic young writer tastes the corrupting fruits of success, while his beautiful, ambitious wife begins to doubt her former values...read more

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9781842321539 | House of Stratus Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Passion, conflict and infidelity are vividly depicted in this gripping tale of two people and their marriage.

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Product Description: In a small Irish village, young Esther Costello, victim of a tragic accident that has left her deaf, dumb and blind, is kept barely alive by hardhearted parents. Discovered by a well-meaning American tourist, who is appalled by Esther's shocking condition, she is whisked away to America for treatment...read more

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9781842321577 | House of Stratus Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In a small Irish village, young Esther Costello, victim of a tragic accident that has left her deaf, dumb and blind, is kept barely alive by hardhearted parents.

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Product Description: The Alcestis, a British luxury liner, moored in New York and bound on a cruise to the Caribbean, South America and Africa, awaits her exclusive passengers - businessmen with mid-life crises, large bank balances and unforgiving wives; legacy-laden women looking for love and adventure; and divorcees with settlements to squander...read more

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9781842321522 | House of Stratus Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Alcestis, a British luxury liner, moored in New York and bound on a cruise to the Caribbean, South America and Africa, awaits her exclusive passengers - businessmen with mid-life crises, large bank balances and unforgiving wives; legacy-laden women looking for love and adventure; and divorcees with settlements to squander.

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Product Description: Liverpool Docks, on Merseyside - a senseless strike threatens to delay the departure of an ocean liner. As the last of the passengers come aboard, including the shipping line's chairman, the drama increases with the threatened walk-out of the stewards...read more

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9781842321461 | House of Stratus Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Liverpool Docks, on Merseyside - a senseless strike threatens to delay the departure of an ocean liner.

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Product Description: On the icy slopes of the great ice-mountain of Bylot Island, set against the metallic blue of the Canadian Arctic sky, Shepherd has a vision of the world as it used to be, before the human race was weakened by stupidity and greed...read more

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9781842321591 | House of Stratus Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $8.94 | About this edition: On the icy slopes of the great ice-mountain of Bylot Island, set against the metallic blue of the Canadian Arctic sky, Shepherd has a vision of the world as it used to be, before the human race was weakened by stupidity and greed.

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Product Description: An act of kindness has grave consequences in this heart-rending novel about a young girl, pregnant and abandoned, and the man who helps her. When decent, compassionate Carter takes pity on this young girl, he is quickly drawn into an ordeal beyond his control...read more

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9781842321560 | House of Stratus Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $9.94 | About this edition: An act of kindness has grave consequences in this heart-rending novel about a young girl, pregnant and abandoned, and the man who helps her.

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In this first half of an epic portrayal of the hazardous life of a British seaman through the past four centuries, master mariner Matthew Lawe sails with Drake and Hudson, serves with Samuel Pepys, and stands firm with Nelson at Trafalgar

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9780688033972 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1979, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In this first half of an epic portrayal of the hazardous life of a British seaman through the past four centuries, master mariner Matthew Lawe sails with Drake and Hudson, serves with Samuel Pepys, and stands firm with Nelson at Trafalgar

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