Douglas Reeman

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

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....

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....

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....

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 crack German cruiser Prinz Luitpold had always been lucky in battle....

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

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....

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

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

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....

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....

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

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

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....

HMS Wagtail is a river gunboat, a ship seemingly at the end of her unusual life, lying in a Hong Kong dockyard awaiting her last summons to the breakers' yard....

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...

It takes a special sort of courage to serve in midget submarines, and Lieutenant David Seaton needs no reminding of the perils involved....

Adriatic, 1940s....