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Winged Escort Douglas Reeman Good Book    US $1.56

A Ship Must Die Douglas Reeman    US $1.56

Battlecruiser Douglas Reeman Acceptable Book    US $5.99

Killing Ground Douglas Reeman Good Book    US $4.27

Douglas Reeman Sunset Book    US $4.19

Reeman Douglas KNIFE EDGE HCDJ UK 1st 1st NF    US $22.99

Reeman Douglas SURFACE WITH DARING Signed UK 1st NF    US $57.99

Knife Edge Royal Marines 5 Douglas Reeman Good    US $4.73

Sunset Douglas Reeman Good Book    US $5.91

Douglas Reeman In Dangers Hour    US $3.95

For Valour by Douglas Reeman 2000 Book    US $32.95

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White Guns Douglas Reeman    US $13.56

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Hardcover in DJ Douglas Reeman Badge of Glory Book Club Associates 959185    US $19.37

The Last Raider Douglas Reeman    US $3.79

The First To Land Royal Marines 2 Douglas Reeman    US $1.56

Douglas Reeman The Hostile Shore Book    US $4.09

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Reeman Douglas THE GREATEST ENEMY Signed UK HCDJ 1st    US $128.99

White Guns Douglas Reeman    US $4.32

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Path Of The Storm by Douglas Reeman    US $7.98

Strike from the Sea Douglas Reeman    US $1.56

Douglas Reeman Badge of Glory The First to Land    US $3.95

Reeman Douglas TORPEDO RUN UK HCDJ 1st 1st NF    US $16.99

With Blood And Iron by Douglas Reeman 1982 Uk p b    US $6.11

In Dangers Hour by Douglas Reeman 0515103055    US $4.97

The First to Land NEW by Douglas Reeman    US $25.09

Winged Escort Douglas Reeman    US $1.56

Paperback Douglas Reeman Torpedo Run Arrow 959092    US $10.01

Paperback Douglas Reeman Volunteers Arrow 949564    US $7.03

Paperback Douglas Reeman Volunteers Arrow 947663    US $7.92

The Glory Boys Douglas Reeman New    US $10.12

Iron Pirate by Douglas Reeman    US $23.00

Douglas Reeman Dawn Like Thunder Book    US $4.09

The White Guns NEW by Douglas Reeman    US $22.37

For Valour Douglas Reeman    US $5.11

Douglas Reeman Omnibus Douglas Reeman    US $1.56

Paperback Douglas Reeman First to Land Arrow 947662    US $9.31

Hostile Shore Douglas Reeman    US $2.00

Go in and Sink by Douglas Reeman 0099097605    US $4.97

Knife Edge Charnwood Large Print Douglas Reeman Book    US $4.25

Hardcover in DJ Douglas Reeman Iron Pirate Stoddart Canadian] 948430    US $17.71

Dust on the Sea Windsor Selections Douglas Reeman    US $1.56

Iron Pirate by Douglas Reeman    US $4.30

For Valour Modern Naval Fiction Library Douglas Reeman    US $25.42

Sunset Douglas Reeman Good    US $1.56

Douglas Reeman The First To Land Royal Marines 2 Book    US $4.19

Who is the best author when it comes to Nelson Type naval books?

For me, C.S Forrester's Hornblower is still the best but I like also, Julian Stockwin,David Donachie,Patrick 0' Brian. Find Alexander Kent (alias Douglas Reeman) miserable

I read the Hornblower series way back when I was in my teens (about 50 years ago) and maybe that explains why H.H. will always be, for me, the definitive British, wooden-ships, iron-men naval hero.
I've read all the O'Brian "Aubrey/Maturin" series, and, while I thoroughly enjoyed them (and found them "technically superior" to Forrester's books), The characters didn't engage me as much as H.H. and company. As I've said, perhaps my age (I was in my 50s when I read O'Brian) made a difference.
But I must disagree with the 1st answerer as to H.H.'s being too "two-dimensional" and "black and white." H.H. himself was by no means a flawless hero; he had plenty of faults. In fact, what helped make him so interesting was that he was able to overcome them. And, as for the "politics of the time", well I simply don't see how O'Brian gave more "depth" to it (and why should he, since the "politics" was, in the main, irrelevant. It was "Boney" versus Britannia, - and England expected every man to do his duty.