Robin Neillands

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Robin Neillands (pseudonyms: Robin Hunter, Rob Hunter, Neil Lands and Debbie Hunter ) (born December 3, 1935 in Glasgow , † January 30, 2006 ) was a British author.

Life

After serving as a conscript with the Royal Marine Commando in Cyprus and the Middle East, Neillands worked as a seller for the Imprint Pan Books , which enabled him to travel to Australia, the Far East and South America. In the UK he founded Spur Books and published his travel guides for France. In the late 1980s he became interested in history. One of his novels, the thriller The Fourth Angel (1985), was made into a film with Jeremy Irons and Charlotte Rampling in the leading roles.

Works

Travel books

  • Walking Through France (1988)
  • Walking Through Spain (1991)
  • Walking Through Ireland (1993)
  • Walking Through Scotland (1995)

Books on history

  • Royal Marine Commandos 1942-82 (1987)
  • The Hundred Years War (1990)
  • The Wars of the Roses (1992)
  • The Dervish Wars (1996)
  • Wellington and Napoleon (1994)
  • Voices from Normandy (1993)
  • Conquest of the Reich (1995)
  • A Fighting Retreat: Military Campaigns in the British Empire 1947-97 (1996)
  • The Great War Generals 1914-1918 (1996).
  • The Bomber War (2001)
  • The Dieppe Raid 1942 (2005)
  • The Battle for the Rhine 1944 (2005)
  • Eighth Army 1939-45 (2004)
  • The Death of Glory: The Western Front 1915 (2012)

Fiction

  • The Fourth Angel (1985)
  • Quarry's Contract (1987)
  • The London Connection (1990)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/apr/06/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries
  2. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1514723/Robin-Neillands.html
personal data
SURNAME Neillands, Robin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hunter, Rob (pseudonym); Hunter, Robin (pen name); Lands, Neil (pen name); Hunter, Debbie (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2006