by Douglas Reeman · Arrow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099424109
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«The First to Land» is the historical and war novel by Douglas Reeman, published by Arrow in paperback (304 pages, in English).
In 1899 Captain David Blackwood of the Royal Marines, decorated in Benin, is posted to China. There he faces a troublesome nephew and a German countess who demands to be escorted upriver; when the Boxer Rebellion breaks out in 1900, the marines live up to their motto: first to land and last to leave.
Second instalment of the Blackwood saga, also known as the Royal Marines Saga, about a seafaring family over 150 years. The novel was originally published in 1984.
For readers of historical, naval and war fiction, and for followers of Douglas Reeman's narrative.
Douglas Edward Reeman, who also used the pseudonym Alexander Kent, was a British author who wrote many historical novels about the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars. He wrote a total of 68 novels, selling 34 million copies in twenty languages.
