The Pride and the Anguish

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November, 1941. Lieutenant Ralph Trewin, D.S.C., arrives at Singapore as second-in command of the shallow-draught gunboat, H.M.S. Porcupine. To Trewin, still shocked from wounds received during the evacuation of Crete, the gunboat and her five elderly consorts seem to symbolise the ignorance and blind optimism he finds in Singapore. And the Porcupine's captain is as unwilling as the rest to take heed of Trewin's alarm, for to him the gunboat represents his last chance. The following month, the ...Vis mer