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Hornblower and the Hotspur

C. S. Forester

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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. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower -- who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy -- commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations.

All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed unhappy temperament" -- matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonaparte's cannonballs.

Book information

ISBN:	9780316290463
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Imprint:	Back Bay Books
Pub date:	01 Nov 1998
DEWEY:	823.912
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	394
Weight:	431g
Height:	210mm
Width:	140mm
Spine width:	25mm