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Fantastic new B format package for the entire Hornblower series
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, snow and icebound waterways; overcome Russian political and commercial intrigues; avoid the seductive charms of royalty as well as the deadly reach of assassins in the imperial palace; and contend with hostile armies and French privateers. With the fate of Europe balanced on a knife edge, the responsibility lies heavy on a Commodore's shoulders...
The Commodore is the eighth of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.
Series: A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea
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The Commodore
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Flying Colours
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Mr Midshipman Hornblower
Hornblower is Hamlet in command of a battleship - New York Times 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command. As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy. Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781405936934
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 June 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 268g
Pages: 384
About the Author
C. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899, where his father was stationed as a government official. He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, and after leaving Guy's without a degree he turned to writing as a career. On the outbreak of war he entered the Ministry of Information and later he sailed with the Royal Navy to collect material for The Ship. He made a voyage to the Bering Sea to gather material for a similar book on the United States Navy, and it was during this trip that he was stricken with arteriosclerosis, a disease which left him crippled. However, he continued to write and in the Hornblower novels created the most renowned sailor in contemporary fiction. He died in 1966.
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