Lieutenant Hansen, commander of the old tug Island Rose, is in disgrace. Two years previously he had been instrumental in failing to warn a British cruiser that the Queen Mary, laden with three thousand Gls, was coming straight at her. The cruiser sank with the loss of eight hundred lives, leaving Hansen ostracized and ashamed. Now he has to take his battered tug right on to the British beach at Sword. His task is to mask the first landing barges of the British 'Iron Division' and prevent the first wave of infantry from being massacred. It's a do-or-die mission, but Hansen is determined to carry it out and reclaim the honour of the old tug...and his own.
- ISBN10 072787439X
- ISBN13 9780727874399
- Publish Date 24 June 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 September 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Severn House Large Print Books
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English