Douglas Reeman
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Douglas Reeman is a British author who has written many historical fiction books on the Royal Navy, many set during World War II. Reeman, born in 1924, served in the Royal Navy during World War II and the Korean War. He also wrote a series of novels about several generations of the Blackwood family who served in the Royal Marines from the 1850s to the 1970s and, under the pseudonym of Alexander Kent, has written a series of Napoleonic era Royal Navy novels around the character of Richard Bolitho. He has also written a non-fiction account of his World War II experiences, D-Day: A Personal Reminiscence (1984).
Bibliography (with publication dates)
World War II novels
- A Prayer for the Ship (1958)
- Dive in the Sun (1961)
- With Blood and Iron (1964)
- HMS Saracen (1965)
- The Pride and the Anguish (1968)
- To Risks Unknown (1969)
- Rendezvous - South Atlantic (1972)
- His Majesty's U-Boat (aka Go In and Sink!) (1973)
- The Destroyers (1974)
- Winged Escort (1975)
- Surface with Daring (1976)
- Strike from the Sea (1978)
- A Ship Must Die (1979)
- Torpedo Run (1981)
- The Volunteers (1985)
- The Iron Pirate (1986)
- In Danger's Hour (1988)
- The White Guns (1989)
- Killing Ground (1992)
- Sunset (1994)
- A Dawn Like Thunder (1996)
- Battlecruiser (1997)
- For Valour (2000)
- Twelve Seconds to Live (2002)
The Blackwood Saga
- Badge of Glory (1982)
- The First to Land (1984)
- The Horizon (1993)
- Dust on the Sea (1999)
- Knife Edge (2004)
Other settings
- High Water (1959)
- Send a Gunboat (1960)
- The Hostile Shore (1962)
- The Last Raider (1963)
- Path of the Storm (1966)
- The Deep Silence (1967)
- The Greatest Enemy (1970)
His novels as Alexander Kent can be found under that article.