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Dudley Pope

Born

in Ashford, The United Kingdom

December 29, 1925

Died

April 25, 1997

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Dudley Pope was born in Ashford, Kent.

By concealing his age, Pope joined the Home Guard aged 14 and at age 16 joined the Merchant Navy as a cadet. His ship was torpedoed the next year (1942). Afterwards, he spent two weeks in a lifeboat with the few other survivors.

After he was invalided out of the Merchant Navy, the only obvious sign of the injuries Pope had suffered was a joint missing from one finger due to gangrene. Pope then went to work for a Kentish newspaper, then in 1944 moved to The Evening News in London, where he was the naval and defence correspondent. From there he turned to reading and writing naval history.

Pope's first book, "Flag 4", was published in 1954, followed by several other historical accounts. C. S. Forester, the ...more

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	Ramage (Lord Ramage #1) by Dudley Pope, Alexander Kent (Foreword) 4.03 avg rating — 2,630 ratings — published 1964 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ramage & the Drumbeat (The Lord Ramage Novels, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 1,409 ratings — published 1968 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ramage & the Freebooters (The Lord Ramage Novels, #3) 4.11 avg rating — 1,215 ratings — published 1969 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ramage's Prize (The Lord Ramage Novels, #5) 4.12 avg rating — 983 ratings — published 1974 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Governor Ramage R. N. 4.18 avg rating — 955 ratings — published 1973 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ramage's Diamond (The Lord Ramage Novels, #7) 4.24 avg rating — 907 ratings — published 1976 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ramage & the Rebels (The Lord Ramage Novels, #9) 4.17 avg rating — 828 ratings — published 1978 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ramage's Mutiny (The Lord Ramage Novels, #8) 4.23 avg rating — 795 ratings — published 1977 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ramage & the Guillotine (The Lord Ramage Novels, #6) 3.97 avg rating — 797 ratings — published 1975 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ramage Touch (The Lord Ramage Novels, #10) 4.11 avg rating — 757 ratings — published 1979 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“(obeying the Admiralty instruction which said only that a man “claimed” the woman as his “wife,” with no limit on the number of ports in which the man could have a “wife”).”
― Dudley Pope, Ramage & the Renegades: The Lord Ramage Novels

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“It was not that these men were cold-blooded or hard-hearted: death was something they had to take in their stride. Dwelling on it would probably drive a man mad,”
― Dudley Pope, Ramage & the Dido

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“Instead, Parliament passed an Act which was, as usual, a legal redundancy, and superbly upholstered with "whereby," "notwithstanding," "heretofore" and other such words so beloved of anyone who ever used a heavy legal textbook to prop open a door on a windy day”
― Dudley Pope, Ramage & the Guillotine

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