C. S Forester
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No one is better at creating thrilling authentic nautical adventures than C. S. Forester, "a master of the genre," says The New York Times.
One of eleven volumes in the series, Hornblower and the "Hotspur" takes place in 1803, just as Napoleon is amassing an army of ships destined to attack England. The task of stopping him falls to young Horatio Hornblower, one of the Royal Navy's most daring and resourceful officers. During a
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First published in 1935, CS Forester's classic romantic adventure is a tale of opposites attracted. Allnut and Rose, a disreputable Cockney and an English spinster missionary, wend their way down a river in Central Africa in a rickety, asthmatic steam launch, and are gradually joined together in a mission of retaliation against the Germans. Fighting time, heat, malaria and bullets, the two have a dramatic rapprochement before the explosive ending...
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"The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the...
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Horatio Hornblower is only seventeen when he joins His Majesty's Royal Navy as a Midshipman. He's dangerously unschooled in seafaring and the ways of seamen, but he's saved by his quick, mathematical mind and keen eye ... This is where it all begins-- where young Hornblower gets his sea legs and shows the makings of the legend he will later become.
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 9
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Once again the indomitable Hornblower risks his career in the fight against Napoleon. Allied with him is his old love Marie. She is by no means the least of the obstacles in the way of his return to the arms of Lady Barbara.
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 2
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A gripping, rip-roaring tale of turmoil and triumph on the high seas.
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 10
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As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.
10) Flying colours
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A prisoner of the French after he was forced to surrender his ship, Captain Horatio Hornblower faces a trial by his captor, if he can escape, a court-martial back in England
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 8
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These thrilling tales of high-seas adventure in the Napoleonic era, which Winston Churchill found "vastly enteratining" and Ernest Hemingway recommended to "every literate I know", are being eagerly embraced by a new generation of readers. Back Bay takes pleasure in reissuing these classic tales in handsome new trade paperback editions.
15) Ship of the line
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 6
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[1966]
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323 pages ; 20 cm
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18) Greyhound
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2019.
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261 pages ; 20 cm
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"The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the...
20) Beat to quarters
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 5
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[1966]
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324 pages ; 20 cm
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"Hornblower, uncertain of his abilities, receives orders to go to the Pacific coast of Central America where he fights two successful battles with the same Spanish frigate."*** "Captain Hornblower has been ordered to find a water route across the Central American isthmus and destroy a fifty-gun Spanish ship, but Hornblower finds himself distracted by his newest passenger, the beautiful Lady Barbara Wellesley."
June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua...