The World War II Novels (ePub)
Voyage to Somewhere, Pacific Interlude, and Ice Brothers
(Sprache: Englisch)
Three novels of life at sea during World War II from the bestselling author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and A Summer Place.
Drawing on his own experiences as a US Coast Guard officer, Sloan Wilson sheds a unique light on World War II in these...
Drawing on his own experiences as a US Coast Guard officer, Sloan Wilson sheds a unique light on World War II in these...
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Three novels of life at sea during World War II from the bestselling author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and A Summer Place.
Drawing on his own experiences as a US Coast Guard officer, Sloan Wilson sheds a unique light on World War II in these three unforgettable novels.
Voyage to Somewhere: Hoping to draw a nice, lengthy shore duty after two years at sea, Lieutenant Barton is instead told that he's being sent right back out, this time as captain of a supply ship sailing from California to New Guinea and stopping at every small island in between. Despite being homesick for his wife, he has no choice but to accept the assignment and a cargo of pineapples destined for Hawaii. When Barton isn't battling gale-force winds and monstrous waves, he's coping with seasick sailors and budding rivalries that threaten to turn mutinous. Hanging over the ship like a storm cloud is the knowledge that the world is at war and the enemy is never far away. "One of the few honest and straightforward sea books that have come out of the war" (New York Herald Tribune).
Pacific Interlude: Twenty-five-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant Sylvester Grant, a veteran of the Greenland Patrol, has just been given command of a small gas tanker carrying extremely flammable cargo across dangerous stretches of the Pacific Ocean. As the Allies prepare to retake the Philippines, Grant and his crew must bring two hundred thousand gallons of high-octane aviation fuel to shore. From below-deck personality clashes to the terrifying possibility of an enemy attack, from combating illness and boredom to the constant stress of preventing a deadly explosion, the crew of Y-18 must learn to work together and trust their captain-otherwise, they might never make it home. "Powerful, passionate and authentic . . . Unforgettable" (James Dickey, author of Deliverance).
Ice Brothers: After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Paul Schuman, a college senior and summer sailor, enlists in the Coast Guard and is assigned to be the executive officer aboard the Arluk, a converted fishing trawler patrolling the coast of Greenland for secret German weather bases. Led by Lt. Cdr. "Mad" Mowry, the finest ice pilot and meanest drunk in the Coast Guard, Schuman and communications officer Nathan Greenberg battle deadly icebergs, dangerous blizzards, and menacing Nazi gunboats. Surviving the war will require every ounce of courage and intelligence they possess-and that's before Mowry breaks, forcing the young officers to take command at the worst possible moment. "The best since The Caine Mutiny" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Drawing on his own experiences as a US Coast Guard officer, Sloan Wilson sheds a unique light on World War II in these three unforgettable novels.
Voyage to Somewhere: Hoping to draw a nice, lengthy shore duty after two years at sea, Lieutenant Barton is instead told that he's being sent right back out, this time as captain of a supply ship sailing from California to New Guinea and stopping at every small island in between. Despite being homesick for his wife, he has no choice but to accept the assignment and a cargo of pineapples destined for Hawaii. When Barton isn't battling gale-force winds and monstrous waves, he's coping with seasick sailors and budding rivalries that threaten to turn mutinous. Hanging over the ship like a storm cloud is the knowledge that the world is at war and the enemy is never far away. "One of the few honest and straightforward sea books that have come out of the war" (New York Herald Tribune).
Pacific Interlude: Twenty-five-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant Sylvester Grant, a veteran of the Greenland Patrol, has just been given command of a small gas tanker carrying extremely flammable cargo across dangerous stretches of the Pacific Ocean. As the Allies prepare to retake the Philippines, Grant and his crew must bring two hundred thousand gallons of high-octane aviation fuel to shore. From below-deck personality clashes to the terrifying possibility of an enemy attack, from combating illness and boredom to the constant stress of preventing a deadly explosion, the crew of Y-18 must learn to work together and trust their captain-otherwise, they might never make it home. "Powerful, passionate and authentic . . . Unforgettable" (James Dickey, author of Deliverance).
Ice Brothers: After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Paul Schuman, a college senior and summer sailor, enlists in the Coast Guard and is assigned to be the executive officer aboard the Arluk, a converted fishing trawler patrolling the coast of Greenland for secret German weather bases. Led by Lt. Cdr. "Mad" Mowry, the finest ice pilot and meanest drunk in the Coast Guard, Schuman and communications officer Nathan Greenberg battle deadly icebergs, dangerous blizzards, and menacing Nazi gunboats. Surviving the war will require every ounce of courage and intelligence they possess-and that's before Mowry breaks, forcing the young officers to take command at the worst possible moment. "The best since The Caine Mutiny" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Autoren-Porträt von Sloan Wilson
Sloan Wilson (1920-2003) was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, and graduated from Harvard University. An avid sailor, he joined the US Coast Guard shortly after Pearl Harbor and, during World War II, commanded a naval trawler on the Greenland Patrol and an army supply ship in the South Pacific. Wilson earned a battle star for his role in an attack by Japanese aircraft and based his first novel, Voyage to Somewhere, and two of his later books, Ice Brothers and Pacific Interlude, on his wartime experiences. In 1955 he published The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, a classic portrait of suburban ennui heralded by the Atlantic as "one of the great artifacts of popular culture in the 50's." It was adapted into a successful film, as was its bestselling follow-up, A Summer Place.The author of fifteen books, Wilson was living with his wife of forty years, Betty, on a boat in Colonial Beach, Virginia, at the time of his death.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sloan Wilson
- 2017, 2028 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 150404861X
- ISBN-13: 9781504048613
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.09.2017
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Praise for Voyage to Somewhere“Nothing is glossed over; this is actually the way things went on board a small craft in the Pacific area, these are the mistakes men made and learned by, these are the things they thought and did.” —Weekly Book Review
“An eminently readable story of the sideshows of the war in the Pacific, a real saga of the small craft.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
Praise for Pacific Interlude
“A master storyteller.” —The Houston Post
Praise for Ice Brothers
“Sloan Wilson’s best novel to date . . . He knows the hero and his ice brothers well enough to make them living, breathing realities.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A memorable story, realistic, smoothly told, exciting—and vividly evocative of Greenland’s ice land- and seascape.” —Publishers Weekly
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