Product Description

October 1918: Germany is suing for peace, terms for an armistice are being negotiated between the several capitals, all U- boats have meanwhile been ordered home from patrol. Among them is U81, commanded by Otto von Mettendorff: he's young, dynamic, already approaching the status of an 'Ace', and is infatuated with a new girlfriend who works not far from Wilhelmshaven, to which port U81 is now returning. However, U81 is 'holed' by a destroyer and sent to the bottom of forty fathoms of English sea. Meanwhile in London, Anne Laurie, a young war widow now being courted by an American naval officer, and by virtue of her fluent German employed in the Intelligence Division of the Royal navy, learns of Otto's death. It jolts memories of a pre-war weekend in Berlin in the summer of 1913, the genesis of a compulsive story of two magnetic people torn apart by global conflict. STARK REALITIES is a grippingly authentic First World war adventure.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #446913 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
* 'His action passages are superb, and he never puts a period foot wrong' - Observer * 'You don't read a novel by Alexander Fullerton. You LIVE it' - South Wales Echo * 'The research is unimpeachable and the scent of battle quite overpowering' - Sunday Times

About the Author
Alexander Fullerton has been regarded as one of Britain's premier adventure novelists since his first book SURFACE! was a bestseller in 1953. Apart from the acclaimed Everard series he is the author of an SOE quartet featuring Rosie Ewing.