Douglas Reeman

Western Ocean, 1942....

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....

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

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....

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

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

HMS Royston, Coastal Forces Depot Ship, is mother ship to a battered, war-worn bunch of MTBs and MGBs....

They are called 'The Glory Boys', by those who regard their exploits with envy. Bob is one of them. Already a survivor of the close action in the English Channel & North Sea....

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....

International bestseller and former British Naval officer, Douglas Reeman is the author of 35 novels under his own name, in addition to 26 works of historical fiction penned under the pseudonym Alexander Kent. Twelve Seconds to Live is a thrilling World War II sea adventure. The mine is an...

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....

Hong Kong, 1941... To the residents and defence forces of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong, the war in Europe remains remote....

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

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 men....

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

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 and blind optimism he finds in Singapore.....

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

The old submarine-chaser USS Hibiscus, re-fitting in Hong Kong dockyard before being handed over to the Nationalist Chinese....

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

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....