Published by McBooks Press, Inc., 2014. Copyright © 1991 by Highseas Authors Ltd. First published in the United Kingdom in 1991 by William Heinemann.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Reeman, Douglas.

Killing ground / Douglas Reeman.

pages ; cm. -- (Modern naval fiction library)

ISBN 978-1-59013-679-9 (alk. paper)

1. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Atlantic Ocean--Fiction. 2. Merchant marine--Officers--Fiction. 3. War stories. 4. Sea stories. I. Title.

PR6068.E35K55 2014

823’.914--dc23

2014001594

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