Operation Chariot, Duncan Harding
Operation Chariot, Duncan Harding
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Operation Chariot

Author: Duncan Harding

Narrator: Alex Wyndham

Unabridged: 4 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/15/2022


Synopsis

Another thrilling novel of the war at sea from the author of Tug of War and Flotilla Attack.

Already two German battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, had slipped through the English Channel under the bows of the British Fleet. Now, the Third Reich's largest and most deadly warship, the Tirpitz, had only one possible destination on Europe's Atlantic coast: the formidable dry dock of St Nazaire.

HMS Rose, aged and jinxed destroyer, was detailed to join the daring mission to destroy the entire dry dock of St Nazaire. She found herself not, as planned, backing up Operation Chariot as a troop ship, but fighting alone in the icy, fogbound seas—shot to hell and 300 miles between her and home . . .

About Duncan Harding

Duncan Harding is a pseudonym for Charles Whiting (1926-2007), who also wrote as Leo Kessler and John Kerrigan. Charles Whiting volunteered for the Army at age sixteen in 1943, where he saw active service in Belgium, Holland, and Germany with the 52nd Reconnaissance Regiment. He has over 350 books to his credit, encompassing military history, espionage, biography, and action fiction, and received the Sir George Dowty Prize for Literature.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert

This is a fairly decent read with the action parts of the story well described and vivid. A few parts are a touch ridiculous, the part where Wide Boy try’s to fight some American Navy men is a bit pointless and any victim seems to always lose their head! Some parts of the story narrative feel like t......more

Outstanding naval action This story is as accurate a description of the St Nazaire raid that I have ever read,Fact mixed with fiction makes a compelling story about a successful raid that won at least one VC medal and with ships name changes is also chronicled in the movie The Gift Horse.......more

Excellent A story of fortitude and courage that was more than likely actual, time and time again during World War two.......more

Goodreads review by Greg

Great Story Reminds of the children's book the little engine that could, except this was the old destroyer that did. Well written......more

Reminiscent of Douglas Reeman's work. Based on historical facts, daybook perpetuates the stiff upper lip, damn the torpedoes attitude of World War II British royal Navy.......more