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A New Trade
Underhand Invention (Related to this series)
- Author
- Andrew Wareham
- Narrator
- Steven Crossley
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 19 May 2026
- Run Time
- 9 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The Navy has its new submarines and must discover what to do with them. They cannot fall back upon Nelson as a precedent, and Their Lordships of the Admiralty are at a loss to create a strategy.
Gilbert Maltravers is given a new E Class boat and sent off to the Mediterranean, in the hope that the Admiral Commanding there will find something useful for him to do. He leaves his new wife behind and sails off to do his duty, hoping that somebody will know what his duty should be.
It is the end of 1914 and the Navy has suffered humiliating defeats. Something must be done.
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Details
- Author
- Andrew Wareham
- Narrator
- Steven Crossley
- Duration
- 9 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 May 2026
- ISBN
- 9798318516115
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Historical fiction, First World War fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
The Navy has its new submarines and must discover what to do with them. They cannot fall back upon Nelson as a precedent, and Their Lordships of the Admiralty are at a loss to create a strategy.Gilbert Maltravers is given a new E Class boat and sent off to the Mediterranean, in the hope that the Admiral Commanding there will find something useful for him to do. He leaves his new wife behind and sails off to do his duty, hoping that somebody will know what his duty should be.It is the end of 1914 and the Navy has suffered humiliating defeats. Something must be done.
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