Douglas Reeman

February 1943. As the balance of the war slowly shifts in Britain's favour, Lieutenant-Commander Steven Marshall brings his battle-scarred submarine into home port....

Western Ocean, 1942....

In 1941, when she was turned into an armed merchant cruiser, the SS Benbecula was already old....

When Captain Guy Sherbrooke joins HMS Reliant in 1943, he knows he may be her last Captain....

Adriatic, 1940s....

HMS Temeraire: latest and most advanced of Britain's nuclear submarines....

The year: 1943. Now there was to be no more retreat for Britain and her Allies. At last the war was to be carried into enemy territory....

January, 1944. When the British light cruiser Andromeda arrives at Williamstown naval dockyard to be handed over to the Royal Australian Navy, she is already a legend....

Indo-China 1941, and cruising somewhere off Saigon is the world’s largest, most dangerous submarine, the French Soufriere....

Commander Graham Martineau must once again call from the ordinary seamen the ultimate in courage, and prepare to defend to the death vital convoys to Russia....

They were the men and women of the Royal Navy's Special Operations units....

The Mediterranean, 1943... The HMS Rob Roy. A tiny machine, just 230 feet from stem to stern....

It is 1943 and Captain Mike Blackwood, Royal Marine Commando, is a survivor....

It was in 1943. On the Black Sea, the Russians were fighting a desperate battle to regain control....

From the author of The First to Land, a novel set during World War II....

There will be days when you wonder at and question some of the risks you had to take, the sacrifices you were forced to offer in the face of death....

Below a dark and angry sea, men in the submarines of the British Navy prowl. Explosive spherical mines lie silently in wait for their weathered vessels....

Malta 1941. To most people H.M.S. 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 he was sent to protect....

This is the third book in the 'Blackwood' saga. For three generations, members of the Blackwood family served the Royal Marines with distinction....

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 Thailand....