Destroyers

They called them the Scrapyard Flotilla. . . In a quarter-century of continuous service the eight destroyers had seen every kind of action at sea. Now they were going to be used on hard-hitting raids that would open the way for an invasion of Occupied Europe. Were the ships chosen for their battle-worthiness -or because they were expendable? As the operations got underway Keith Drummond, captain of the destroyer Warlock, realised that his men would be tested to the limit-and beyond.