Alistair Macleans War: How the Royal Navy Shaped His Bestsellers Simmons Mark
Alistair Macleans War: How the Royal Navy Shaped His Bestsellers Simmons Mark It is no coincidence that many of Alistair MacLean's most successful novels were sea stories. For the majority of his…
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Alistair Macleans War: How the Royal Navy Shaped His Bestsellers Simmons Mark
It is no coincidence that many of Alistair MacLean's most successful novels were sea stories. For the majority of his service, he was on HMS Royalist, a modified Dido-class light cruiser, seeing action in the Arctic, and operations against the German battleship Tirpitz. In 1941, he was called up after volunteering for the Royal Navy and served as Ordinary Seaman, Able Seaman, and Leading Torpedo Operator.
After which MacLean and Royalist were deployed to the Indian Ocean and operations against the Japanese in Malaya, Burma, and Sumatra.His wartime experiences coupled with exceptional literary skill resulted in the runaway success of his first novel HMS Ulysses (1955) followed by The ship then deployed to the Mediterranean taking part in Operation Dragoon the invasion of the South of France and later in operations against German occupied Greek Islands in the Aegean.
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