At the start of Lord Hornblower, the tenth book in the excellent series by C.S. Forester, Horatio Hornblower has been ill and has spent a long time onshore. Finally, he is better and receives new orders. This time Lord St. Vincent sends Commodore…
At the start of Lord Hornblower, the tenth book in the excellent series by C.S. Forester, Horatio Hornblower has been ill and has spent a long time onshore. Finally, he is better and receives new orders. This time Lord St. Vincent sends Commodore…
Commodore Hornblower (UK title: The Commodore) was the fourth Hornblower book to be written, but in the internal chronology of the Hornblower saga, it is the eight. It is among the best books in the Hornblower Saga, It is now 1812, and Hornblower…
This is a novel in the Horatio Hornblower Saga by C. S. Forester. It is now 1810 and the Napoleonic Wars are still raging. Captain Horatio Hornblower has now been assigned command of a fine ship of the line, a two-decker, and…
This is the fourth of the Hornblower books in terms of internal chronology, and it is now 1806. Hornblower has had a short leave ashore and hurries back to London with his wife to take up his new command – the HMS Atropos, a…
This is the third book in the Horatio Hornblower Saga chronologically speaking, but one of the last books written. The action in the book takes place in 1803. After an unhappy spell ashore on half-pay, Hornblower marries the daughter of his landlady…