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Želi ovaj predmet: | 2 |
Stanje: | Polovan bez oštećenja |
Garancija: | Ne |
Isporuka: | BEX Pošta DExpress Post Express Lično preuzimanje |
Plaćanje: | Tekući račun (pre slanja)
Ostalo (pre slanja) Pouzećem Lično |
Grad: |
Novi Sad, Novi Sad |
Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani
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It is January 5, 1945. A French freighter is torpedoed in the South Atlantic. By the laws of war, the shipwrecked survivors should be beyond further attack. But when the U-boat commander orders that they be shot, he justifies it as `an operational necessity.` He believes that the safety of his own boat and crew depends on destroying all traces of the sinking. Only later, at an Allied tribunal after V-E Day, are the grim facts fully brought to light in a dramatic confrontation between the sole survivor and the captured German officers. Crisscrossing brilliantly from the agonies of the wounded survivors to the action aboard the hunted submarine, Gwyn Griffin divides the reader`s sympathies as he probes incisively into the paradoxes of human nature and of war and its aftermath. Before his early death, Griffin was hailed as a storyteller to surpass his contemporaries Alistair MacLean and Hammond Innes. The proof is here, in a novel that ends with one of the most harrowing courtroom scenes in modern fiction.
Gwyn Griffin was born in Egypt, where his father was in the Colonial Service, and was educated in England. During World War II he performed administrative duties in several British colonies in Africa. These included service as a cipher clerk to Major Orde Wingate in Ethiopia and later as adjutant to Prince Makonnen, one of the sons of Emperor Haile Selassie I, in the Sudan Defence Force. In 1946-47 he was an Assistant Superintendent in the Eritrean Police, and later worked as a port pilot in Assab. Imperfect eyesight prevented him from becoming an officer in the British Merchant Navy.[1] In 1950 he married Patricia Dorman-Smith, a daughter of Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith.[2] The couple lived in Australia and the Canary Islands before settling in Introdacqua in the Abruzzo region of Italy. They had no children. Gwyn Griffin died of a bloodstream infection in October 1967, while being treated for a spinal disk problem.[3][4]
Work[edit]
Although most of Griffin`s books are set in former British colonies, Master of this Vessel and An Operational Necessity are sea stories and A Last Lamp Burning is set in Naples. Gwyn Griffin`s books were well received by the public, and his storytelling ability was particularly noted in reviews of his work.[5][6] In 1965 he was awarded a Putnam Award for A Last Lamp Burning.[7]
His final novel, An Operational Necessity, was based on the Peleus Incident, the only documented case in World War II in which a U-boat machine-gunned survivors in the water.[8] It was a Book of the Month Club selection and at the time of his death was on The New York Times Best Seller list.[9] It was reissued in 1999 by the Harvill Press.
Books by Gwyn Griffin[edit]
The Occupying Power – 1956
By the North Gate – 1958
Something of an Achievement – 1960
Master of This Vessel (published in England as Shipmaster) – 1961
A Significant Experience – 1963
Freedom Observed – 1963
Sons of God – 1964
A Scorpion on a Stone – 1965
A Last Lamp Burning – 1966
An Operational Necessity – 1967
Pomorske bitke podmornice torpeda vojni brodovi vojne operacije na morima okeanske borbe u vodi rat ratni romani knjige o pomorskim bitkama drugi svetski rat militarije