The Dangerous Years

This reminded me a lot of Patrick O’Brian’s 20 odd books series featuring the adventures of Captain Jack Aubrey and ship’s doctor Stephen Maturin, the Master and Commander series. O’Brian’s chronicles ran to at least 6,000 pages and upon reading seemed to be written as a single piece of work, sliced......more

This is the second volume in a series telling the story of an up and coming British naval officer form WW1 through WW2. It is a series that I have enjoyed immensely especially as the author relates histroical happenings during the period that I was unfamiliar with. In essence the combination of a go......more

Hard to believe, but the bloody war’s over. Lieutenant Kelly McGuire distinguished himself as much as he was able, but it wasn’t much of a naval war, the Great One. But while the big war might be over, peace isn’t quite the word for parts of the world at the moment, especially the bit around the Bla......more

I wasn’t as excited about The Dangerous Years as I was about The Lion at Sea. Of course, the very title of the novel suggests that the events in the book will take place between the world wars. Indeed, Kelly Maguire is a lot like Dirty Harry in that he always gets the excretory end of the stick (not......more