HORNBLOWER DURING THE CRISIS

by C. S. Forester ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 8, 1967

If you think it was all Nelson at Trafalgar, then read this and think again--of the newly promoted Horatio Hornblower, without whom the British Navy might have bounded to the bottom. He had only one epaulette to denote a new captaincy without a ship when he presented a captured dispatch at the Admiralty, which led to a marvelous fraud on the French through forged orders and helped secure Nelson's glorious defeat of Napoleon's invasion plans. And honest Horatio went on to ignore a whole set of papers listing Irish-French spies of the time and the packet of bank notes that could have made him and his secure. And he sailed on to become Admiral of the Fleet a peer the realm a and of and landlord of parts when, one miserable night, a disheveled Frenchman appeared at his door claiming to be Napoleon Bonaparte....Horatio will never sink in reader appeal; he's rum naval yarn entertainment.

Pub Date: Nov. 8, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Little, Brown

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1967

Categories: FICTION