J.E. Macdonnell 29: Fleet Destroyer: A World War 2 Naval Adventure

by J.E. Macdonnell

J.E. Macdonnell writes of the Navy life he knows with a vivid and convincing pen.
Fleet Destroyer was written during the time the Eastern Fleet took to steam from its base in Ceylon, lambast Surabaya, and steam back again. Few people know there is a flotilla of Australian destroyers, manned and officered by Australians, serving with Admiral Mountbatten’s Eastern Battle Fleet.
Here, then, is her story; and the story of a thousand men of the Royal Australian Navy, men who have fought from Murmansk to Moresby, and most places in between, and who, positioned between Jap-occupied East Indies and the land of their birth, are even now seeking the main obstacle to their return there—the Japanese Fleet.

"… a vivid impression of life in an Australian destroyer. FLEET DESTROYER is a worthy addition to Australian naval literature." – Melbourne Herald

" … his books is more than a mere record of events. Most of us who can guide a pen have it in us to make such a record. McDonnell goes beyond that. His sensitivity makes him an interpreter. His vivid touch gives life an colour to his writing," – Hermon Gill, former Lieutenant-Commander, R.A.N.V.R., Official War Historian

" … the book has a directness which Bacon himself might have envied …" – Sydney journal

153 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 7, 2024

About the author

During his fourteen years in the R.A.N., Queensland born James (Jim) Edmond MacDonnell (aka James McNell, James Dark, James Edmond Macdonnell, James Macdonnell, J.E.M., Jim Macdonnell, J. Macdonnell, Macnell, Kerry Mitchell, Michael Owen.) came up through all lowerdeck ranks to commissioned gunnery-officer. This experience is evident in his sea novels which have been published in many countries overseas, as well as in Australia and New Zealand.