Wreckers Must Breathe

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Wreckers Must Breathe
First edition
AuthorHammond Innes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherCollins
Publication date
1940
Media typePrint

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]

  1. ^ Vinson & Kirkpatrick p.455
  2. ^ Redford p.205

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.