Wreckers Must Breathe
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Author | Hammond Innes |
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Language | English |
Genre | Thriller |
Publisher | Collins |
Publication date | 1940 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Wreckers Must Breathe is a 1940 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. It was published in the United States by Putnam's under the title Trapped.[1] Set in the early stages of the Second World War, it tells a story about German U-boats operating from a secret base in Cornwall.[2] The title refers to the tradition of wrecking on the Cornish coast.
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- James Vinson & D. L. Kirkpatrick. Contemporary Novelists. St. James Press, 1986.
- Duncan Redford. The Submarine: A Cultural History from the Great War to Nuclear Combat. I.B.Tauris, 2015.