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C. S. Forester
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Series
(Cecil Scott),Hornblower volume 1
Language
English
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Here we meet Horatio Hornblower, a young man of 17, in this Volume #1 of what becomes the 11 volume set about the career of this British Naval officer fighting against Napoleon and his tyranny of Europe as an inexperienced midshipman in January 1794. Bullied and forced into a duel, he takes an even chance. And then he has many more chances to show his skills and ingenuities - from sailing a ship full of wetted and swelling rice to imprisonment and...
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(Cecil Scott),Hornblower volume 2
Language
English
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His cool judgment under fire shows that young Hornblower is maturing as he repeatedly defeats the Spanish warships.
3) Plain murder
Author
Language
English
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In Plain Murder, C. S. Forester takes us into the life and mind of an ordinary man, husband and father living and working in England in the late 1920's. Mr. Morris and a couple of co-workers were caught taking bribes, and were in danger of losing their jobs. Because of the desperate need for income, and the fact that their boss was the only one who could implicate them, Morris devised a plan to take him out of the equation. He accomplished his first...
Author
Series
(Cecil Scott),Hornblower volume 10
Language
English
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As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.
Author
Series
(Cecil Scott),Hornblower volume 11
Language
English
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Horatio Hornblower, now Admiral, sails over seas as challenging as any in his victorious career. As admiral in charge of His Britannic Majesty's West Indies Station he is as gallant, daring, implosive as ever. In this tense time after Napoleon's defeat, all kinds of vagabonds, revolutionaries, Imperial Guards. and pirates come sailing into the waters where Hornblower is working his small contingent of naval vessels to preserve the peace and eliminate...
Author
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(Cecil Scott),Hornblower volume 9
Language
English
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It is 1812, and Hornblower has been given sole responsibility for protecting the Baltic trade and stopping the spread of Napoleon's empire into Sweden and Russia. His instructions are to sacrifice every man and his ship rather than surrender.
7) The ship
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line, the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland, which he deems "the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy List." Moreover, she is 250 men short of a full crew, so Hornblower must enlist and train "poachers, bigamists, sheepstealers," and other landlubbers. By the time the Sutherland reaches the blockaded Catalonian...
Author
Series
(Cecil Scott),Hornblower volume 6
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1938.
Language
English
Description
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 across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial. A daunting...
Author
Series
(Cecil Scott),Hornblower volume 7
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1966.
Language
English
Description
May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line, the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland, which he deems "the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy List." Moreover, she is 250 men short of a full crew, so Hornblower must enlist and train "poachers, bigamists, sheepstealers," and other landlubbers. By the time the Sutherland reaches the blockaded Catalonian...
Author
Publisher
Simon
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
(Cecil Scott),Hornblower volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1967.
Language
English
Description
On the threshold of securing his first post as captain, Hornblower finds himself forced by the exigencies of war to fight alongside a man whom he has unintentionally helped to court-martial.
12) Flying colours
Author
Series
(Cecil Scott),Hornblower volume 8
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
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.
13) Loyalty: Duty
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Admiral Pellew sends Hornblower off in search of his old mate Bracegirdle, whose sloop Grasshopper has gone missing under mysterious circumstances.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Salty saga of the bravest skipper ever to sail the seas- Captain Horatio Hornblower. The English Captain sailed during the Napoleonic era, and outthought, outmaneuvered and outfought his rivals, but was more than a little at sea when faced with a beautiful woman!
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Sensational film about the Spanish War of Independence (1810). After Napoleon's invasion of Spain, a group of guerillas (led by Sinatra) attempt to transport what was in those days the biggest cannon in the world, across Spain to Avila, where they intend to counterattack against the French army headquartered there. But a British Navy captain (Grant) is trying to locate the cannon for the British to use against Napoleon. Adding romance to the plot...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
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Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...