CONTESTED LAND - A TALE OF WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST

EAN : 9789403867434

POLET TED

Nouveauté

Édition papier

EAN : 9789403867434

Paru le : 17 févr. 2026

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Résumé : The date is November 1973, shortly after the Yom Kippur war in the Middle East, as a Dutch cargo vessel arrives in the Syrian port of Latakia. Due to a boycott action against the ship, things go badly wrong. The ship becomes unmanageable and collides with a Soviet frigate, which opens fire at the unlucky vessel. The crew then is taken hostage by the Syrian regime, but Nick de Rooij, the apprentice officer, manages to escape.Unwittingly he becomes involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict. He escapes from Syria with the help of a young Palestinian woman and ends up with her family in a refugee camp in the north of Lebanon. His attempt to reach Beirut ends in disaster, and although he eventually reaches home, he is badly traumatised. Years later he works as a Mate in cargo ships, but he is still plagued by nightmares and hallucinations. He returns to Lebanon to confront his trauma. In the chaos of the Lebanese civil war he finds a job with the United Nations to search for his past.
Biographie : As a young man, Ted Polet went to sea in cargo ships for several years, before finding a job ashore. Later he workted in ICT and quality management, but he stayed true to the sea, sailing his own boat to the UK, to Germany and France several times. After early retirement he turned to writing fiction, often with a seafaring content and based on subject research. He is married and has three sons.