Douglas Reeman

The Battle of Jutland exposed the battlecruisers’ weakness: its armour could be pierced by a single shell. In 1943, as Britain prepares to invade occupied Europe, Captain Guy Sherbrooke takes command of HMS Reliant, one of only two battlecruisers to have survived. He knows he could be her last captain.

HMS 'Terrapin' took a vital part in the Battle of the Atlantic. Now, 25 years later, she is working out her last commission in the Gulf of Thailand. Under the stubborn leadership of her new captain, she and her crew find a long-forgotten unity of purpose.

Former naval officer Philip Vivian sets out with his own motor yacht on a profitable, if legally dubious, adventure proposed to him by an old comrade-in-arms. However he soon finds himself trapped in a treacherous web of violence and crime.

1944 and Ian Ransome, Captain of the fleet minesweeper, HMS Rob Roy, faces the daily risk of death. As the Allies prepare for D-Day, Ransome takes on his most dangerous mission yet, which will push both captain and crew members to the limits.

A novel about the Battle of the Atlantic seen through the eyes of both British and German seamen. Lieutenant-Commander David Howarth, in charge of HMS Gladiator, is engaged in a relentless and savage war against an ever-present enemy and a violent sea.

Hong Kong in 1941, and the war in Europe seems remote. Hopwever Lieutenant-Commander Brooke of HMS Serpent recognises that an attack by Japan is inevitable. When it comes, Brooke and his company refuse to accept defeat.

It is 1943. For Britain and the Allies, there can be no retreat. At last the war will be taken into enemy territory, and spearheading the advance is the Royal Navy's Special Force in North Africa.

The Second World War is raging and John Devane is sent by the British government as commander of a small flotilla of motor torpedo boats to assist the Russians in the Black Sea. Against the background of the Eastern Front Devane learns that war can still be a conflict between two individuals.

The men who volunteered for Special Countermeasures in the Royal Navy were all brave, lonely men. One, Lieutenant- Commander David Masters, haunted by the mine which destroyed his ship, now defuses 'The Beast' on land and teaches other volunteers the same deadly science.