For three generations, members of the Blackwood family served the Royal Marines with distinction.
Caught up in the savagery of a conflict beyond any officer's control, Blackwood's future rests on the 'horizon' - the dark lip of the trench which was the last fateful sight for so many.
'One of our foremost writers of naval fiction' Sunday Times
Mastery storytelling.
Douglas Reeman did convoy duty in the navy in the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the North Sea. He has written over thirty novels under his own name and twenty-seven bestselling historical novels featuring Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.