Having
written about the global activities of the Royal Navy for more than 20
years, Iain Ballantyne has spent time in most types of warship, from
nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers, to destroyers and
frigates. He has sailed in minefields off war-torn Kuwait, witnessed
embargo enforcement in the Adriatic and counter-terrorism sweeps in the
Mediterranean. Iain has also voyaged into Arctic waters and accompanied
Royal Marines on fast boat patrols off Hong Kong. He won an award for
his action-packed depiction of the pursuit and destruction of Hitler's
flagship, as recounted in KILLING THE BISMARCK, his last book prior to
HUNTER KILLERS for Orion.
In 2017 Iain Ballantyne was awarded a Fellowship by the UK's Maritime Foundation, one of its top annual awards, in recognition of his immense contribution to the maritime cause since 1990, as a journalist, author of naval history books and Editor of WARSHIPS magazine from 1998 to the present.
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