‘A bright new star rises on the ocean waves.’
Sunday Telegraph
Lieutenant Guy Greville of HMS Dulcinea and the corvette’s diehard sailing captain, the Earl of Saxmundham, who cannot abide engines or engineers, were last met off Eas...
‘A roistering war novel.’
Daily Telegraph
This is the third novel featuring the young naval officer, Guy Greville, met previously in The Lion’s Claw and The Unquiet Gods.
Now first lieutenant of Her Majesty’s second-class...
‘Giving rein at last to his excellent narrative gifts, Mr Padfield has his readers thoroughly involved.’
The Mariner’s Mirror
This novel by one of Britain’s leading naval historians introduces Lieutenant Guy Greville, intelligenc...
‘There are many riches in Salt and Steel. The book is not really to be compared with most of the stuff that passes for naval historical novel-writing; if one said simply that it was ‘better’, that would belittle it.’
The Naval Review
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