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A Tradition of Victory by Alexander Kent
Category: Fiction
Another exciting Bolitho adventure! This fourteenth Bolitho novel has the epic scenes of action, the powerful characterization and the authentic period detail that have made Alexander Kent a bestseller wherever sea stories are read. After eight years of war between Britain and France there is at last a ...Show more
Band of Brothers by Alexander Kent
Category: Fiction
The new year of 1774 seems to offer Richard Bolitho and his friend Martyn Dancer the culmination of a dream. But, a routine passage from Plymouth to Guernsey in an untried schooner becomes, for Bolitho, a passage from midshipman to King's officer. This is the conclusion of Alexander Kent's midshipman tr ...Show more
Band of Brothers by Alexander Kent
Category: Fiction | Series: Richard Bolitho Ser.
Richard Bolitho returns in this captivating page-turner set on the high seas from multi-million copy seller Alexander Kent. Fans of Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester will not be disappointed! 'One of our foremost writers of naval fiction' - THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Good characters, good story, good action.' - ...Show more
Colours Aloft! by Alexander Kent
Category: Fiction
Colours Aloft!, the sixteenth Richard Bolitho novel, bears all the hallmarks of its best-selling predecessors. September 1803 Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds himself the new master of the Argonaute, a French flagship taken in battle. With the Peace of Armiens in ruins, he must leave the safety of ...Show more
Cross of St George by Alexander Kent
Category: Fiction | Series: Richard Bolitho: Book 24
In the bitter February of 1813, with convoys from Canada and the Caribbean falling victim to American privateers, Sir Richard Bolitho returns to Halifax to pursue a war he knows cannot be won, but which neither Britain nor the United States can afford to lose. After nearly thirty years of almost continu ...Show more
For My Country's Freedom by Alexander Kent
Category: Fiction
March, 1811 After two and a half months of precious peace in Cornwall with his beloved mistress Catherine, Admiral Richard Bolitho is once again summoned to London. In defence of an Empire, the Admiralty must quell the unrest in America - or face the war with those who were once friends. For when diplom ...Show more
Heart of Oak (#28 Richard Bolitho) by Alexander Kent
Category: Fiction | Series: Richard Bolitho Ser.
It is February 1818, and Adam Bolitho longs for marriage and a safe personal harbour. But with so much of Britain's fleet redundant, he knows he is fortunate to be offered H.M.S. Onward, a new 38-gun frigate whose first mission is not war but diplomacy, as consort to the French frigate Nautilus. Under t ...Show more
In the King's Name (#29 Richard Bolitho) by Alexander Kent
Category: Fiction | Series: Richard Bolitho
It is January 1819, and Captain Adam Bolitho ships out from Falmouth bound for Freetown, on the old the slave coast of Africa. H.M.S. Onward carries sealed orders in the strongbox below deck. But why all the secrecy and apparent urgency? And why Onward, so soon after the Mediterranean, and that bloody a ...Show more
Man Of War by Kent Alexander
Category: Fiction | Series: Richard Bolitho Ser.
This work is set in Antigua 1817. Every harbour and estuary is filled with ghostly ships, the famous and the legendary now redundant in the aftermath of the war. In this uneasy peace, Adam Bolitho is fortunate to be offered the seventy-four gun Athena, and as flag captain to Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Beth ...Show more