Title: The ship
Description: Although it is now 75 years old, this is one of the finest naval novels ever written, capturing in painstaking detail  the personalities and technicalities involved in directing a fighting ship, in this case a Light Cruiser , in a battle which in reality was one of the decisive naval battles in the European War of 1939-45 ( 2nd battle of Sirte, which saved Malta for the Allied Forces))
Subjects: Fiction, action & adventure, World war, 1939-1945, fiction
Time periods: 1942