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Douglas Reeman


(Douglas Edward Reeman)
UK flag (1924 - 2017)

aka Alexander Kent

Douglas Edward Reeman joined the British Navy at 16, serving on destroyers and small craft during World War II and eventually rising to lieutenant. He served as vice-president of the Missions To Seamen and as a script adviser for television and films. Under the pseudonym, Alexander Kent, Reeman was the author of the best-selling 25-volume series of Richard Bolitho Novels. His books have been translated into nearly two dozen languages.
 

Genres: Historical, Thriller
 
Series
Modern Naval Fiction Library
   1. For Valour (2000)
   2. A Prayer for the Ship (1958)
   3. Twelve Seconds to Live (2002)
   4. Battlecruiser (1997)
   5. The White Guns (1989)
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Blackwood Family
   1. Badge of Glory (1982)
   2. The First to Land (1984)
   3. The Horizon (1993)
   4. Dust on the Sea (1999)
   5. Knife Edge (2004)
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Novels
   High Water (1959)
   Send a Gunboat (1960)
   Dive in the Sun (1961)
   The Hostile Shore (1962)
   The Last Raider (1963)
   H.M.S. Saracen (1965)
   With Blood and Iron (1965)
   Path of the Storm (1966)
   The Deep Silence (1967)
   The Pride and the Anguish (1968)
   To Risks Unknown (1969)
   The Greatest Enemy (1970)
   Rendezvous - South Atlantic (1972)
   Go in And Sink (1973)
     aka His Majesty's U-Boat
   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)
   Killing Ground (1991)
   Sunset (1994)
   A Dawn Like Thunder (1996)
   The Glory Boys (2007)
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Anthologies edited
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Non fiction show
 


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