Time and Tide Tapa dura - 1988

Macmillan. Good. 297mm / 210mm. Hardcover. 1988. 517 pages. Dj ripped and worn<br>Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1987. .

In very good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Time and Tide is a breathtaking novel of the historical imagination, rich with the myths of war, the mystery of the raging sea, the loves and dreams of American lives besieged by currents of a near-forgotten past. Thomas Fleming captures the Navy and WWII in the Pacific with the same panoramic vision and painstaking authenticity that Herman Wouk brought to the Army and the war in Europe.At the centre of his monumental canvas is the USS Jefferson City; a once-gallant ship engulfed in a battle for its own redemption. Disgraced by its alleged flight from the Battle of Savo Island, the Jefferson City must reclaim its honour - do or die. Fleming takes us upstairs to the officers' quarters where Kansas-born Captain Art McKay fights to penetrate the mystery of the Savo debacle and struggles with the legacy of former Captain Win Kemble, his greatest friend. We travel below decks… Leer más

London: Macmillan, 1988. 9780333457290. 1st edn signed and inscribed by author on title page. 8vo. Original silver lettered blue cloth (casing with slight lean and extrems scuffed), dustwrapper (VG, in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 517 (no other inscriptions).