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4 unusual facts about Hammond Innes


Hammond Innes

An audio adaptation of The Doomed Oasis has been repeated on the UK digital radio station BBC Radio 7 (now called BBC Radio 4 Extra).

Hell Below Zero

The film was produced in color, based on the novel The White South by Hammond Innes, and presents interesting footage of whaling fleets in action.

Kenley

Hammond Innes' book Attack Alarm was based on his experiences as a Royal Artillery anti-aircraft gunner at RAF Kenley during the Battle of Britain.

RAF Kenley

Hammond Innes' book Attack Alarm, published in 1941, was based on his experiences as a Royal Artillery anti-aircraft gunner at RAF Kenley during the Battle of Britain.


Brian Callison

A Plague of Sailors and its sequel A Frenzy of Merchantmen, along with A Web of Salvage and Spearfish, are straightforward present-day thrillers similar to the work of Desmond Bagley and Hammond Innes.

Tomorrow series

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.


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