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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Ramage's Signal about amp, Secker, Warburg with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.
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conversations.value: 1st Secker &amp; Warburg 1980 edition 1st print hardcover book. fine condition book &amp; fine dw. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.
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conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Ramage's Signal
  Ramage shook his head, puzzled. "You're sure that the pain, or the brandy, has not left him—well, a bit off his head?"
  Ramage came up on deck to find the launch, pinnace and both cutters streaming astern, and forty or fifty men waiting in the waist of the ship after having been inspected by Southwick.
  The Master came up to him. "I wonder how many masters have gone off to start destroying six ships at anchor, sir."
  Ramage had noticed that at the north end of the gulf, to leeward of several of the merchant ships and near some huts, a group of fishermen were watching. At least, he assumed they were fishermen because they were near some fishing boats drawn up on the beach.
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conversations.value: He could see the strange sail coming up fast now—the convoy was making less than six knots—and had finally decided she was French. Aitken had given very precise instructions about what the convoy was to do if attacked by French, Spanish or Algerines, and Paolo was thankful that an enemy frigate had not turned up earlier.
  Paolo looked astern to avoid laughing: he had dreamed hundreds of times of taking his own ship into action; he had imagined himself at the quarterdeck rail in full uniform, dress sword, telescope under his arm, snapping crisp orders to quartermaster, gunner, first lieutenant, master... But the ship in his dreams had been at least a frigate with a crew of two hundred and fifty, not a bedraggled trading brig of three hundred tons with a barnacled bottom, four guns and ten men. But at least the ten men had exercised those four guns...
  The men shuffled their feet and sucked their teeth, brows furrowed with concentration, and increasingly embarrassed at Rennick's impatience.
  He looked round at the eight men, the man at the wheel and the lookout aloft. Ten, led by himself as the eleventh. Well, it could not be helped. Surprise would have to provide the equivalent of the other two hundred and ninety men he would prefer to have.
  There were enough "Ahs" and "S'rights" showing agreement that Rennick promptly seized the moment to tell them his plan.
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conversations.value: Accurate, fair, thorough, and lively, this penetrating account of a mutiny and its aftermath shows why Pope was as widely respected as a historian as he was popular as a novelist. From contemporary British documents and the dusty French naval archives in Brest, Pope returns to vivid life the men, the ship, and the tragic chain of events that follow a capture by the press-gang.
  Fans of Pope's Lord Ramage novels may even spot the historical figures who inspired some of their favorite fictional characters and stories.
  Lieutenant-Commander David Masters now uses all his skill and training to defuse "the beast" wherever he fi nds it.
  Captain Guy Sherbrooke still reels from the loss of his previous command; now he's out to even the score.
  Sub-Lieutenant Clive Royce must quickly learn to play the deadly cat-and-mouse game of attack and survival against the mighty German fl eet.