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Horatio Hornblower bliver for første gang gjort til kaptajn over eget skib. Kongen sender ham til Tyrkiet, hvor et britisk skib er gået til bunds med en enorm guldskat om bord. Hornblower og hans mandskab skal i al hemmelighed hæve skatten op fra havets b
"Kaptajn Hornblower" tager sin begyndelse i 1808, hvor Hornblower har kommandoen over HMS Lydia - en fregat med 36 kanoner. Han har fået ordre om at sejle til Stillehavet, nærmere betegnet Nicaraguas kyst og levere støtte til en lokal godsejer i
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 comman
The final, unfinished volume in C. S. Forester's beloved Hornblower saga sees the indomitable naval hero engage in espionage to thwart Napoleon's forces ahead of the Battle of Trafalgar. Although unfinished at the time of C. S. Forester's deat
Hornblower's reconnaissance mission quickly turns to warfare in this installment of the beloved series of naval adventures by C. S. Forester, "a master of the genre" ( New York Times ). April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napol
2022 Reprint of the 1955 Edition. The Good Shepherd is a 1955 nautical and war novel by C. S. Forester. First published in the U.S., it illustrates the difficulties of the Battle of the Atlantic: the struggle against the sea, the enemy, and the exhaustion
Hornblower gets his first independent command in this installment of C. S. Forester's beloved series, "the most popular modern saga of the days when ships were wood and men were iron" ( New York Times Book Review ). In this gripping tale of