Douglas Reeman

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....

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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....

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....

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

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....

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

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....

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

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....

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....