Here is a vividly authentic, meticulously
crafted novel, presenting an Upstairs. Down-
stairs view of the Royal Navy during the ma-
jestic flood tide of Victorian imperialism.
It was a time when arrogance and self-in-
dulgence, suffering and poverty were taken
for granted, and foreign uprisings were settled
by gunboat or battleship. The Royal Navy
was the most esteemed and powerful force in
the world.
Rod Maclewin and Archy Buller joined the
Navy for reasons as different as their own per-
sonal lives and backgrounds. Rod came from
the slums of Tyneside, where poverty and un-
employment stalked the narrow streets and
shipyards. For him the Navy was the only
harsh alternative to hunger and despair. Buller
was descended from generations of naval of-
ficers, many of them admirals with victories
and prize money to their credit.
These two young men, one a rich and priv-
ileged officer, the other a rating from the
lower deck, meet in the midst of combat in a
distant campaign. From that time. as they
grow and rise in rank, fate and war bring them
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