About Alistair Maclean

                                         About 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 later 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, became a schoolmaster. In 1983, he was awarded a D.Litt. from the same university.

Alistair Maclean is now recognised to be the outstanding writer of our time in his own genre.
All of his novels have been worldwide bestsellers . Many have been filmed- The guns of Navarone, Force 10 from Navarone, Where eagles dare, Bear Island, Fear is the key, and When eight bells toll are among the most famous. He died in 1987.