- Paperback
- Publisher: Pocket Books (Mm); Reissue edition (February 1989)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671746294
- ISBN-13: 978-0671746292
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 11.7 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 612 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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'Terrific' Daily Telegraph 'An Epic' Sunday Times '100% proof adventure' New York Times
Book Description
August, 1944. Across the enemy-infested Atlantic, the ancient three-mastered ship the "Deutschland" battles home from Brazil on the eve of the Fatherland's final defeat. But it turns out to be a battle for basic human survival, uniting friend and foe against man's oldest enemy - the sea.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Tosses and Turns,
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This review is from: Storm Warning (Hardcover)
My preference is military stories that take place on soil. Naval warfare and air war novels are never my first choice. So it was with great surprise and delight that I read a Higgins that took me outside my comfort zone and delivered great entertainment. I also learned a great deal about the impact of World War 2 on Brazil and the Hebrides. The book follows the harrowing journey of a group of German nationals and combatants from Brazil to the Fatherland aboard a rickety vessel in 1944 when their cause is faltering. The action, characters, and pace will keep you engaged. Higgins delivers on what he has always done well like in The Eagle has Landed and that is provide German characters with ethics, class, and flair.
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A great sea story,
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This review is from: Storm Warning (Mass Market Paperback)
This is a reprint of a novel originally published in 1976. The story is set in August-September 1944. A group of German naval officers and seamen, stranded in Brazil, steal the aged 3-masted barkentine "Deutschland" and, using false Swedish papers, set out on a voyage from Belem, Brazil, in an attempt to reach Germany. They have unexpected passengers - a group of five German nuns from a nursing order attempting to return home. Their biggest danger is the weather as storms batter the sailing vessel (they neglected the fact that September is the peak season for Atlantic hurricanes). The voyage becomes an epic battle against the elements, and leads to heroism, sacrifice, tragedy, and unexpected compassion. I personally believe that this is one of Higgin's best novels, if not the best. There are some intertwined plots as events come together to reach a final climax to the story.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Sea Story with Plausible Characters.,
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This review is from: Storm Warning (Mass Market Paperback)
As a fan of naval adventure fiction, I usually follow the Forester, Obrian, Kent novels of nautical derring-do in the Age of Sail. Thus the jacket blurb on this Higgins book attracted me. I was not disappointed. Briefly, the book involves the fates of passengers and crew of a 19th century three-masted barkentine as it tries to return German nationals from Brazil to the homeland as Germany faces certain defeat. It's a five-thousand mile journey to round the Shetlands to enter the Skageraak and head for home. The Atlantic is controlled by the British and American fleets. This danger, however, is not the main enemy, which is the sea and the weather. The amazing seamanship exercised just to hold the creaking 60-year old vessel together in the teeth of terrible storms may stretch credulity; however the nautical exploits are convincingly described and it's obvious that Higgins knows his naval details down to the way in which sails had to be reefed, masts lashed, hulls braced, etc. The passengers include an admirable collection of nuns who must abandon the order in Brazil due to the fact that Brazil has just become a formal ally of the United Nations effort to defeat the Nazi regime. The stifled romance between a wavering novitiate nun and a strongly etched member of the ship's crew is well drawn, not too maudlin and deftly handled. So too are the British and American characters on a remote island in the Hebrides, who are to become entangled in the fate of the imperiled _Deutschland_. Even the captured U-Boat commander Gericke avoids the usual black and white "German = Nazi" stereotyping.I would have liked to see the subsequent fate of the surviving main characters brought to light. Any screenplay based on this novel (which is a natural for the cinema) should try to tie up these loose ends. Highly recommended.
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