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A Ship of the Line by C. S. Forester
Category: Accessories
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.
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
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: Fiction
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
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
Flying Colours by C. S. Forester
Category: Accessories
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
General, The by C. S. Forester
Category: Military
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
Greyhound: Discover the gripping naval thriller behind the major motion picture starring Tom Hanks by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction
'Unbelievably good' James Holland, bestselling author of Normandy '44 The Tom Hanks film originally published as The Good Shepherd and acclaimed as C.S. Forester's wartime classic It's 1942. America has just joined the war. Greyhound, an international convoy of thirty-seven allied ships, is in operation ...Show more
Greyhound (FTI) by C. S. Forester
Category: Classics
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 hotly pursued by wolf packs of Nazi U-boats.Fac ...Show more