Alistair MacLean

Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots Minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941, at the age of eighteen, he joined the Royal Navy; two and a half years spent aboard a cruiser were to give him the background for 'HMS Ulysses', his first novel, the outstanding documentary novel on the war at sea. After the war he gained an English Honours degree at Glasgow University, and became a schoolmaster. In 1983, he was awarded a D. Litt. from the same university. Maclean is the author of twenty-nine world bestsellers and recognised as an outstanding writer in his own genre. Many of his titles have been adapted for film - 'The Guns of the Navarone', 'Force Ten from Navarone', 'Where Eagles Dare' and 'Bear Island' are among the most famous. He died in 1987.

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Books HMS Ulysses (1955) The Guns of Navarone (1957) South By Java Head (1958) The Secret Ways (1959) The Last Frontier (1959) Night Without End (1960) Ice Station Zebra (1960) Fear Is the Key (1961) The Golden Rendezvous (1962) The Dark Crusader (1962) The Satan Bug (1962) When Eight Bells Toll (1966) Where Eagles Dare (1967) Force Ten from Navarone (1968) Puppet On a Chain (1969) Caravan to Vaccares (1970) Bear Island (1971) The Way to Dusty Death (1973) Breakheart Pass (1974) Circus (1975) The Golden Gate (1976) Goodbye California (1977) Seawitch (1977) Athabasca (1980) Hostage Tower (1980) (with John Denis) River of Death (1981) Air Force One Is Down (1981) Partisans (1982) The Black Shrike (1982) Floodgate (1983) San Andreas (1984) The Lonely Sea (1985) Santorini (1986) Alistair Maclean's Death Train (1989) (with Alastair MacNeill) Alistair MacLean's Night Watch (1989) (with Alastair MacNeill) Alistair MacLean's Red Alert (1990) (with Alastair MacNeill) Alistair MacLean's Time of the Assassins (1991) (with Alastair MacNeill) Alistair MacLean's Dead Halt (1992) (with Alastair MacNeill) Alistair MacLean's Code Breaker (1993) (with Alastair MacNeill) Fire of Humiliation (1993) Alistair MacLean's Rendezvous (1995) (with Alastair MacNeill) Collected Works The Guns of Navarone / Force 10 from Navarone (2000) Arctic Chillers (2007) Sea Thrillers (2007)

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