Alistair MacLean's 1968 thriller novel Force 10 From Navarone, subsequently filmed, also brings forth the fight of outnumbered Partisans against Germans and Chetniks, and the blowing up of the Neretva bridge.
HMS Ulysses was also the name of a fictional light cruiser in a novel of the same title by Alistair MacLean
While the question of what happened to the humans and where they went to is never fully resolved during the game, David 'Talin' Joiner, one of the game's key developers, revealed in an interview that humanity was eradicated by an airborne biological weapon (a scenario that was inspired by the Alistair MacLean novel The Satan Bug).
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To do this Marsden looked to the authors he had read most avidly as a teenager, thriller writers such as Ian Fleming, Desmond Bagley, John Buchan, Hammond Innes and Alistair MacLean.
Force 10 From Navarone, a 1968 novel by Alistair MacLean, sequel to The Guns of Navarone