Alistair McLean (19221987) British writer, author of 28 action-adventure novels and short stories, screenwriter. His name is widely known to readers around the world. McLean's books have sold more than 150 million copies, in addition, he holds the primacy among writers in the number of screened works. According to his books, scripts and stories, 18 films were shot. In 1983, the University of Glasgow awarded the writer with the degree of Doctor of Literature .. From 1941 to 1946, McLean served in the Navy, took part in military operations and polar convoys, which gave him the richest material for creativity and determined the theme of his best books. This collection, which includes four works of the military-adventure genre, opens the famous novel “The Guns of the Island of Navaron” A group of British commandos was ordered to destroy the coastal battery of the Nazis in the Aegean Sea as soon as possible... “The guns...” became a bestseller, and the success of the film adaptation of the same name led to the writing of a sequel. "Descendant of Navaron Island" - actually a reworked script of a failed film. The heroes of Navarone receive a new task: they must disrupt the German operation to defeat the partisans in Yugoslavia...The path to great literature was opened to MacLean by His Majesty’s Ship Ulysses a brilliant debut and one of the best foreign works about the war. The plot is based on the story of an allied convoy going to the northern ports of the Soviet Union. In the novel Where Eagles Fly, World War II is nearing a denouement. Abducted General, who has secret information about the opening of the second front, and to save him in the impregnable Alps sent a special group.