The Captain

Jan de Hartog


Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
4.17 · 6 ratings · 464 pages · Published: 1966

The Captain by Jan de Hartog
The book centers around the specialized Ocean tugboat trade. In 1940 Harinxma, then a young tugboat officer, escapes to Britain. The Kwel company has managed to get away much of its fleet and personnel, one jump ahead of the advancing Germans, and sets up to continue operations from London. Harinxma gets his first command, at an earlier age and under much more difficult conditions than he would otherwise have had, specifically acting as a "rescue boat" for the often suicidal Allied convoys to Murmansk.

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