The Bone Collectors
by Brian Callison
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0006170188
- ISBN 13
- 9780006170181
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About This Item
Fontana, UK, 1985. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 254 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Fontana, UK, 1985. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine has moderate lean and moderate reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Early 1941: the 'Happy Time' for Hitler's U-boats; the most savage, punishing time for the North Atlantic convoys. A time when antiquated merchant ships, mostly unarmed, invariably slow and with pathetically few escorts crawled doggedly in fixed lines like iron ducks in a shooting gallery across what the Allies called the 'Air Gap' and the U-boat men christened Das Todesloch - 'The Death Hole'. There were no specialist rescue ships provided in those, the bloodiest days. Instead the last ship in each column was nominated to fall back and attempt to save their fellow seafarers forced to abandon. The U-boat men had another ghoulishly apt nickname for such a suicidally-exposed steamer. They called her der Knochensammler - the Bone Collector. This is the story of one of them: of one of those Bone Collectors - the British Steamship Olympian - and of what happened to her while the North Atlantic killing was at its peak. It is a novel of ordinary Merchant Navy convoy men as seen though the eyes of Olympian's Chief Officer during the hours of one night's massacre, when the Unterseeboote wolf packs finally converged on Slow Convoy SC-whatever-number-it-was in the graveyard of Das Todesloch. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; War; ISBN: 0006170188. ISBN/EAN: 9780006170181. Inventory No: 24010161.. 9780006170181
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- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24010161
- Title
- The Bone Collectors
- Author
- Brian Callison
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0006170188
- ISBN 13
- 9780006170181
- Publisher
- Fontana
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; The Bone Collectors
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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