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A Ship of the Line by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction | Series: A\Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea Ser.
A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea May, 1810 - and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line . . . Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is 'the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy' and a crew shortage means he must recruit two hundr ...Show more
A Ship of the Line by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction
It's May, 1810 - and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line ...Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is 'the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy' and a crew shortage means he must recruit two hundred and fifty landlubbers.
Admiral Hornblower: "Flying Colours"; The "Commodore"; "Lord Hornblower"; "Hornblower In the West Indies" by C.S. Forester
Category: Fiction | Series: A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea
Combines seafaring tales about Horatio Hornblower, namely: "Flying Colours", "The Commodore", "Lord Hornblower" and "Hornblower in the West Indies".
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies by C. S. Forester
Category: Classic
The tenth novel in the Hornblower series by the author of The African Queen.
Beat to Quarters by C S Forester
Category: Fiction | Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback)
June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route ac ...Show more
Captain Hornblower R.N.: "Hornblower and the 'Atropos'", "The Happy Return", "A Ship of the Line" by C.S. Forester
Category: Fiction | Series: A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea
"Hornblower and the Atropos" - Skippering the flagship for Nelson's funeral on the Thames is not Hornblower's idea of thrilling action. But soon his orders come, and he sets sail for the Mediterranean in the Atropos. 'Battle, storm, shipwreck, disease - what were the chances that he would never come bac ...Show more
Commodore Hornblower by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction
It is 1812, and Hornblower has been given sole responsibility for protecting the Baltic trade and stopping the spread of Napoleon's empire into Sweden and Russia. His instructions are to sacrifice every man and his ship rather than surrender. The author also wrote "The African Queen".
Flying Colours by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction
A humiliated and shipless captive of the French, Horatio Hornblower faces execution unless he can escape and make a triumphant return to England ...Forced to surrender his ship, HMS Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower is held prisoner in a French fortress. Prospects tu ...Show more
Flying Colours by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction | Series: A\Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea Ser.
A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea A humiliated and shipless captive of the French, Horatio Hornblower faces execution unless he can escape and make a triumphant return to England . . . Forced to surrender his ship, HMS Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower is held pri ...Show more
Forester / The Pursued (Audio CD) by C. S. Forester
Category: Audio Books
Agripping psychological portrayal of obsession, jealousy, torment ...Marjorie had never seen a dead body until she got home one tranquil summer evening and found her sister Dot lying on the kitchen floor in a pretty dress, with her head in the oven. She looked peaceful, as if she was asleep. Their mothe ...Show more
General, The by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction
A superb yet neglected novel, 'The General' is the most vivid, moving - and devastating - word-portrait of a World War One British commander ever written, here re-introduced by Max Hastings. Best known for his Hornblower novels, C.S. Forester's 1936 masterpiece follows Herbert Curzon, who fumbled a fort ...Show more