![]() His active service took him to the Mediterranean and the Far East, as well as on two perilous Arctic convoys. ![]() In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy and served as a Leading Torpedo Operator on HMS Royalist. ![]() He was responsible for some of the greatest novels of the 1950s and 60s, many of which made it to the big screen, including The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, Ice Station Zebra and Golden Rendezvous.Īlistair Stuart MacLean was born on 28 April 1922 in Glasgow, the third of four sons of a Church of Scotland minister, and he learnt English as a second language, his first being Gaelic. He remained in the best seller lists right up to his death in 1987. ![]() A publisher had to persuade a reluctant MacLean to write it after he’d won a local short story competition.Īlistair Maclean’s writing career went on to be, quite frankly, monumental. HMS Ulysses was the highly acclaimed debut novel by the Scottish author, Alistair MacLean, based upon his experiences in the Royal Navy and the dangerous Arctic convoys of the Second World War. ![]()
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