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Alistair MacLean

UK · WWII — action fiction

About

Royal Navy veteran of the Arctic convoys whose thrillers defined the WWII adventure genre for thirty years and sold over 150 million copies.

Books in Database (2)

HMS Ulysses cover
HMS Ulysses 1955 · 320 pages

One Arctic convoy escort driven past breaking point on the Murmansk run.

Historical Fiction
The Guns of Navarone cover
The Guns of Navarone 1957 · 320 pages

Five saboteurs climb an impossible cliff to silence the German guns commanding the Aegean.

Historical Fiction

Events Covered

1943 Italian Campaign 1939 Battle of the Atlantic