Broadsides

The tattered ship's-log; the concise Admiralty Report; the author's own personal experience provide the inspiration for BROADSIDES ... an outstanding collection of stories which are part of the history of the Royal Australian Navy.The Battle Fleet is at sea. This is an event to be witnessed. not only for what it does to the rate-of knots of your bloodstream, but for its rarity. These great ships are powerful. and precious. Their punch is tremendous, and it must not be wasted.They nave not been in action in this war—what comparative force is there to engage them, to merit their ponderous sailing?—and it is likely that they will be in action no more than two or three times.They are looking for it now.Mr. Macdonnell displays a gift for vivid narrative that might have made him an outstanding war correspondent if he had not happened to be a sea officer. (TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT)