Alan White

1 series 6 books in order

Alan White’s brilliant war novels have the authenticity born of personal experience. As leader of a commando unit in World War II, he made more than a dozen operational jumps into Occupied Europe. He also fought in North Africa. After the war he joined the BBC and enjoyed a wide-ranging media career including the role of White House correspondent in the US. He has written over forty novels.

Known for
WW2 Commando Missions

Series by Alan White

WW2 Commando Missions

6 books in order · 1965–1973

  1. Cover of The Long Day's Dying

    The Long Day's Dying

    1965 · Alan White

    Three commandos. Cut off. Surrounded. Desperate. A classic of war fiction and a major film. They were three soldiers, on watch in the French…

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  2. Cover of The Long Night's Walk

    The Long Night's Walk

    1968 · Alan White

    There's only one way home: straight through the enemy. From the author of The Long Day's Dying, a tense, gripping novella about a daring commando…

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  3. Cover of The Long Drop

    The Long Drop

    1970 · Alan White

    Once you step out of the plane there's no way back... French Resistance fighters uncover the position of a secret German store containing files and…

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  4. Cover of The Long Watch

    The Long Watch

    1971 · Alan White

    Sometimes it's the waiting that kills... Millions of lives could be saved by a top-secret scientific formula. But the professor who holds the…

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  5. Cover of The Long Midnight

    The Long Midnight

    1972 · Alan White

    You can't hide when the sun never sets... Norway, 1943. A land in the grip of Nazi occupation, where men and women still fight for freedom in…

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  6. Cover of The Long Fuse

    The Long Fuse

    1973 · Alan White

    Once a traitor, always a traitor? David Hinton is a traitor, both to Britain and Nazi Germany. A British Nazi sympathiser at the start of the war, he…

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How many books has Alan White written?

We list 6 books by Alan White across 1 series, published between 1965–1973 — each shown in full reading order.

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