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Alan Evans


Born
in Sunderland, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1930

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Alan Evans was born in 1930 in Sunderland. He is an enthralling writer of First and Second World War adventure thrillers, mainly based on naval battles. Carefully researched, and with his own experience of active service, he skilfully evokes the tension and terror of war. Many of the figures and events are based on real-life models. His best-known character is Commander David Cochrane Smith, a maverick First World War sea captain. The protagonist of six of Evans' novels, he has to battle against the highly sceptical Admiralty as well as seemingly impossible odds in order to triumph. Evans' style is pacey and grippin
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Average rating: 4.28 · 5,953 ratings · 201 reviews · 20 distinct worksSimilar authors
Night Action

4.19 avg rating — 990 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions
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Thunder at Dawn (Commander ...

4.15 avg rating — 820 ratings — published 1978 — 14 editions
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Sword at Sunrise

4.40 avg rating — 644 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions
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Deed of Glory

4.50 avg rating — 518 ratings — published 1985 — 10 editions
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Eagle at Taranto

4.24 avg rating — 547 ratings — published 1987 — 9 editions
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Dauntless (The Commander Co...

4.34 avg rating — 466 ratings — published 1981 — 14 editions
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Ship of Force (The Commande...

4.19 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 1979 — 14 editions
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Sink Or Capture (The Comman...

4.39 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions
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Seek Out and Destroy (The C...

4.30 avg rating — 403 ratings — published 1985 — 16 editions
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Audacity (The Commander Coc...

4.28 avg rating — 332 ratings — published 1985 — 11 editions
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“outsider, accepted but different. An orphan brought up by a retired Chief Petty Officer and his wife, his home a village shop; he had been different enough. They wondered how he had got into Britannia and so did Smith. Before he was old”
Alan Evans, Ship of Force

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