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The Commodore by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction | Series: A\Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea Ser.
1812 and the fate of Europe lies in the hands of newly appointed Commodore Hornblower . . . Dispatched to northern waters to protect Britain's Baltic interests, Horatio Hornblower must halt the advance of Napoleon's empire into Sweden and Russia. But first he must battle the terrible Baltic weather: fog ...Show more
The Commodore by C. S. Forester
Category: Accessories
It's 1812 and the fate of Europe lies in the hands of newly appointed Commodore Hornblower ...Dispatched to northern waters to protect Britain's Baltic interests, Horatio Hornblower must halt the advance of Napoleon's empire into Sweden and Russia. But first he must battle the terrible Baltic weather: f ...Show more
The Commodore by C. S. Forester; Christian Rodska (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: Hornblower Ser.
In the ninth installment of the series, C. S. Forester transports us to the quaint village of Smallbridge. Predictably restless and eager to embark on his next adventure, Horatio Hornblower dreams of returning to the seas and commanding his next ship.Now happily married to Lady Barbara Leighton and wide ...Show more
The General by C. S. Forester; Max Hastings (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
The book John Kelly reads every time he gets a promotion to remind him of 'the perils of hubris, the pitfalls of patriotism and duty unaccompanied by critical thinking'The most vivid, moving - and devastating - word-portrait of a World War One British commander ever written, here re-introduced by Max Ha ...Show more
The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction
Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks. Set in the early days of WWII, Greyhound is the story of an international convoy of 37 Allied ships, led by captain Ernest Krause (Hanks) in his first command of a U.S. destroyer. The convoy ploughs through icy, submarine-infested North Atlantic seas while ...Show more
The Good Shepherd - A Novel by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction
Soon to be the major motion picture Greyhound, a WWII naval thriller of "high and glittering excitement" (New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower series The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their ...Show more
The Gun by C. S. Forester
Category: Classics
Abandoned by the retreating Spanish Army during the Peninsular war, the gun was an eighteen pounder bronze cannon, thirteen feet long, a foot in diameter at the muzzle, and weighing three tons. When a group of Spanish partisans come across it two years later they see in it a chance for victory against t ...Show more
The Gun by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction
Abandoned by the retreating Spanish army during the Peninsular War, the gun is an eighteen pounder bronze cannon, thirteen feet long, weighing three tons. When a group of Spanish partisans come across it two years later they see in it a chance for victory against the French - but first they must haul it ...Show more
The Happy Return by C. S. Forester
Category: Accessories
It's June, 1808 - and off the Coast of Nicaragua Captain Horatio Hornblower has his hands full ...Now in command of HMS Lydia, a thirty-six-gun frigate, Hornblower has instructions to form an alliance against the Spanish colonies with a mad and messianic revolutionary, El Supremo; to find a water route ...Show more
The Happy Return by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction | Series: Horatio Hornblower
A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea June, 1808 - and off the Coast of Nicaragua Captain Horatio Hornblower has his hands full . . . Now in command of HMS Lydia, a thirty-six-gun frigate, Hornblower has instructions to form an alliance against the Spanish colonies with a mad and messianic revolutionary, ...Show more
The Pursued by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction
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 mother suspects, however, that Dot's death was far from natural.
The Ship by C. S. Forester
Category: Accessories
'ONE OF THE MOST VIVID ACCOUNTS OF A MODERN BATTLE AT SEA EVER WRITTEN' Sunday Times One vital convoy can break Mussolini's stranglehold on Malta - but it is intercepted in the Mediterranean by enemy warships . . . Five light British cruisers are left to beat back the armed might of the Italian battle f ...Show more