Man of Iron - Couverture rigide

Dehan, R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0855941634 ISBN 13 : 9780855941635

Editeur : C.Chivers, 1970

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Présentation de l'éditeur

For the second time, since this books beginning, the rose of July had flamed into splendid bloom. I drew breath, for my task approached its ending, and looked up from the yellowed newspaper records of a great War waged forty-four years ago. Perhaps I had grown negligent of modern signs and portents, or the web of Diplomacy had veiled them from all but privileged eyes. .. .N ow I saw, looming on the eastern horizon, a cloud in the shape of a mans clenched fist in a gauntleted glove of mail. For days previously the frames of the open windows that look across the garden seaward, had leaped and rattled in answer to the incessant thud-thudding of big naval guns at sea. One opal dawn showed the grim shapes of super Dreadnoughts, Dreadnoughts, pre-D readnoughts and warcruisers, strung out in battle-line along the glittering-green line of the horizon, escorted by a flotilla of destroyers and a school of submarines. Night fell, and sea, land, and sky alternately whitened and blotted in the wheeling ray of the searchlights. Electric balls dumbly gibbered in Admiralty Secret Code. Gulls cradled on the glassy waters of the Channel must have been roused by outbursts of fullthroated British cheering, and the crash of the Fleet bands striking into the National A nthem, as the sealed orders of the Supreme Admiral were signalled from the Flagship commanding the Southern Fleet. No sound reached us ashore but the hush of the waves, the whisper of the nightwind, and the plaintive ululation of the mousing owls on Muttersmoor. Yet what we saw that night was the awakening of Great Britain to the knowledge that her greatness is not past and gone. Since then, the menacing cloud in the east has assumed solidity.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: C.Chivers
• Date d'édition: 1970
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0855941634
• ISBN 13: 9780855941635
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 816
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible