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Gone to Sea in a Bucket

A Harry Gilmour Novel, Book 1

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Gone to Sea in a Bucket

By: David Black
Narrated by: James Langton
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Like all young men of a certain age, Harry Gilmour had his own notion of how a naval battle should be. This wasn't it.

Norway, 1940: Sub Lieutenant Harry Gilmour's first encounter with battleship action is not the adventure he had hoped for. Faced with a thankless task and ill equipped to handle it, Gilmour's inexperience leads to a damning allegation. His future hangs in the balance.

But then Lieutenant Peter Dumaresq steps in to offer him a lifeline - an advanced navigation course that will take him aboard a crack submarine, HMS Pelorus, under the command of a Royal Navy hero. Faced with a possible court martial, Harry chooses life underwater. Once aboard, however, Harry is confronted for the first time by the full horror of submarine warfare. If he can just overcome his fears, it will be the making of him.

Because survival itself is the challenge now. For Harry and the rest of the crew, the next depth charge could be the one that sinks them.

©2015 David Black (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Action & Adventure Genre Fiction Historical Military Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Suspense Thriller & Suspense War & Military Fiction Submarine Royal Navy War Solider
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Although war stories are not my genre, I thought this book might be different - and it was.
Submarine stories are not a normal setting.
The pomposity and class system of the poms grated and I enjoyed that part of the story as much as Harry Gilmour.
As soon as people speak the class divide is set. It is ugly and repressive.

Once Harry is accepted as a submariner, the whole tone of the book improved.
Their lives and journeys were interesting and dangerous.

Not the yellow submarine

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Just wonderful. This book hooked me for the series and I’ve just bought book 4….part of me is already sad that there are only 6 books in the series - I don’t want it to end!!

Excellent storytelling

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No a genre I thought I would enjoy so much. Just a thoroughly good read.

Great Read

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One on the best naval novel I have listened to. For lovers of a good ww2 sea novel (and I have listened to a lot) this is one of the most engrossing and enjoyable I have listened to, I am about to read the next book in the series about a dog called Stalin! Reader was excellent. Same reader for the next book! David from Australia.

Excellent! Beautifully written sea story

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