Ramage's Trial

Dudley Pope

House of Stratus, Mar 28, 2013 - Fiction - 366 pages

Lord Ramage has made his name through numerous brave, daring and extremely perilous sea battles. He has been charged with impossible tasks and has succeeded time after time gaining honour and glory for king and country. He has undertaken his tasks loyally with skill and valour. So it is with some surprise that he finds that perhaps his greatest enemy of all comes from within the British Navy itself. He is forced to undergo a battle that will require his all.

Contents

• CHAPTER ONE: 1
• CHAPTER TWO: 14
• CHAPTER THREE: 28
• CHAPTER FOUR: 43
• CHAPTER FIVE: 55
• CHAPTER SIX: 74
• CHAPTER SEVEN: 87
• CHAPTER EIGHT: 112
• CHAPTER NINE: 127
• CHAPTER TEN: 145
• CHAPTER ELEVEN: 167
• CHAPTER TWELVE: 180
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN: 201
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN: 225
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN: 246
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN: 268
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: 274
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: 300
• CHAPTER NINETEEN: 309
• CHAPTER TWENTY: 331
• CHAPTER TWENTYONE: 342

About the author

Dudley Bernard Egerton Pope was born in 1925 into an ancient Cornish seafaring family. He joined the Merchant Navy at the age of sixteen and spent much of his early life at sea. He was torpedoed during the Second World War and resulting spinal injuries plagued him for the rest of his life. Towards the end of the war Pope turned to journalism, becoming the Naval and Defence Correspondent for the 'London Evening News'. At this time he also researched naval history and in time became an authority on the Napoleonic era and Nelson's exploits, resulting in several well received volumes, especially on the Battles of Copenhagen and Trafalgar. Encouraged by Hornblower creator CS Forester, he also began writing fiction using his own experiences in the Navy and his extensive historical research as a basis. In 1965, he wrote 'Ramage', the first of his highly successful series of novels following the exploits of the heroic 'Lord Nicholas Ramage' during the Napoleonic Wars. Another renowned series is centred on 'Ned Yorke', a buccaneer in the seventeenth century Caribbean and then with a descendant following the 'Yorke' family naval tradition when involved in realistic secret operations during the Second World War. Dudley Pope lived aboard boats whenever possible, along with his wife and daughter, and this was where he wrote the majority of his novels. Most of his adult life was spent in the Caribbean and in addition to using the locale for fictional settings he also wrote authoritatively on naval history of the region, including a biography of the buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan. He died in 1997 aged seventy one. 'The first and still favourite rival to Hornblower' - Daily Mirror

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ramage's Trial
• Author: Dudley Pope
• Publisher: House of Stratus, 2013
• ISBN: 0755124421, 9780755124428
• Length: 366 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Historical; Fiction / Sea Stories; Fiction / War & Military