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Douglas Reeman
With his own motor yacht, Sea Fox , former naval officer Philip Vivian sets out on a profitable - if legally dubious - adventure, proposed to him by an old…
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As the Second World War progresses, the destruction of Allied shipping mounts. Fighter pilot Tim Rowan is posted to an escort carrier to help guard the precious convoys. His adventures…
It is the turn of young Jonathan Blackwood to take up arms and fight in his country’s war, a conflict that has already embroiled all of Europe: World War 1…
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This thrilling World War II novel is the latest in Douglas Reeman’s epic collection of twentieth-century naval fiction.
Originally published in 1991 by Heinemann.
After four years, the tide of war is turning in North Africa and Europe. The conflict in Southeast Asia, however, has reached new heights of savagery, and Operation Monsun poses…
Douglas Reeman’s 30th naval thriller 1941 To the residents and defence forces of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong, th war in Europe remains remote. Lieutenant-Commander Esmond Brooke, captain of…
For three generations, members of the Blackwood family served the Royal Marines with distinction. Caught up in the savagery of a conflict beyond any officer’s control, Blackwood’s future rests on…
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The Sigli had been just an old passenger launch, but when the Japanese invaded Singapore during World War II everything that could float was pressed into service.
Twenty-five years ago HMS Terrapin was part of a crack hunter/killer group in the Battle of the Atlantic. Now she is working out her last commission in the Gulf of…
In November 1941, Lt Ralph Trewin, DSC arrives at Singapore as second-in-command of HMS Porcupine. To the shell-shocked Trewin, the gun boat and her five elderly consorts symbolise the ignorance…
January, 1970, and the final chapter in the Blackwood history appears to have closed with the murder in Cyprus of Lt. Colonel Mike Blackwood. His son Ross is featured in…
It was an age of Empire, an age of contrast, and an age of dramatic change - and one which would determine the destinies of nations as well as of…
For Rudolf Steiger, ace U-boat commander, there is a new sense of urgency. But now, as he takes the U-boat flotilla, Meteor, out into the bitter winter seas, he faces…
But it is the summer of 1944, and on every front the war is going badly for Germany. When the roder comes to leave the Baltic to attack and destroy…
Hiding, lying in wait on the sea bed, is EX16, one of the most important ships in the Royal Navy. She’s not much to look at, and she’s only 54…
In Kiel Harbour, 1945, the war in Europe is at an end. But for Lieutenant Vere Marriott and the men of MGB 801, moored amid a nightmare of devastation, it…
It was in 1943. On the Black Sea, the Russians were fighting a desperate battle to regain control. But the Russians’ one real weakness was on the water: whatever they…
It is 1850… Captain Philip Blackwood of the Royal Marines rejoins his ship, the HMS Audacious. Sent out to Africa to eliminate the last strongholds of slavery, then on to…
The year is 1943. As Britain prepares to invade occupied Europe, the battlecruiser HMS Reliant will be thrown head-first into the conflagration.
Malta 1941. To most people HMS Saracen is just an ugly, obsolete ship with an equally ugly recent history: her last commander is due for court-martial after shelling the troops…
It’s 1945 and the war has ended in Europe but the hate and devastation linger on. Lt. Vere Marriott of the Royal Navy and men are moored in Kiel harbor…
Clive Royce, a new officer with only three months’ experience, must quickly learn the deadly cat-and-mouse game of protecting the coast from the floating fortresses of the Nazi fleet. His…
After four years, the tide of war is turning in North Africa and Europe. Men like Lieutenant James Ross, awarded the Victoria Cross for his work in underwater sabotage, or…
When the offshore island of Santu is threatened with invasion from the Chinese mainland, disgraced Commander Justin Rolfe and the condemned gunboat HMS Wagtail , are ordered to bring out…
As the grim years of the Second World War go by, the destruction of Allied shipping mounts. Now he joins the escort carrier, GROWLER, a posting which takes him first…
Fifth in the Blackwood Royal Marines series, this title is set in fifties Malaya and Singapore, at the height of the new terrorist attempts to subvert the creation of the…
Hong Kong, 1960s: A US submarine-chaser and her captain become entangled with Vietnamese forces on the desolate island group of Payenhau.
The old submarine-chaser USS Hibiscus, re-fitting in Hong Kong dockyard before being handed over to the Nationalist Chinese, is suddenly ordered to the desolate island group of Payenhau.
Germany opens the final, bitter round of the war with a new and deadly weapon in the struggle for the seas - the Vulcan sails from Kiel Harbour. guns, mines…
Commander, Graham Martineau was awarded the Victoria Cross for pressing home attack against impossible odds. Few survived, and crimson ribbon remains a haunting symbol of the sacrifice of ships and…
Yet even she was needed to protect the vital Atlantic sea lanes. Commander Lindsay, her new captain, had to work desperately to mould the ship’s company - raw recruits and…
It is 1943, and Captain Mike Blackwood, Royal Marine Commando, is a survivor. Young, toughened and tried in the hellish crucible of Burma, he labours, sometimes faltering, beneath the weight…
With the Allies poised for the invasion of Italy, the Germans hold a vital card: a floating dock, the only one in the Adriatic large enough to take a major…
In 1917, a German commerce raider is tasked with breaking through the British blockade and bringing chaos to the Allied seaways.
January 1944 in the Indian Ocean, British ships are sinking due to a German armed raider, disguised to deceive unwary merchantmen. In Australia, HMS Andromeda has disengaged from the Nazis…
With historical authenticity and the novelist’s feel for detail, action, and emotion, Reeman brings the story of men at sea alive.
While the politicians haggle over a situation which could hold the seeds of full-scale war, Commander Jermain must keep his faith in himself and in his new ship’s potential -…
1899, China. The Mandarins are becoming troublesome again and there are rumors that attacks will soon begin on British trade missions and legations. Captain David Blackwoodof the Royal Marines, received…
In 1944, ace commander Rudolf Steiger takes a U-boat flotilla out into the bitter winter seas, where he faces a new and deadly enemy-his own nagging doubts about the outcome…
March 1967: HMS Temeraire, Britain’s latest and most advanced nuclear submarine, is ordered to the Far East to reinforce the British fleet against a threat from Red China.
Indo-China 1941, and cruising somewhere off Saigon is the world’s largest, most dangerous submarine, the French Soufriere . The British navy must capture and use her in the defence of…
November 1941 Lieutenant Ralph Trewin, D S C, arrives at Singapore as second-in-command of the shallow-draught gunboat, H M S Porcupine. Through the misery and despair of this bloody campaign…
But to Captain Richard Chesnaye she brings back memories - memories of the First World War when he and the old monitor went through the Gallipoli campaign together. But as…
