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A humiliated and shipless captive of the French, Horatio Hornblower faces execution unless he can escape and make a triumphant return to England ... Forced to surrender his ship, HMS Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio[...]
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Peace of Amiens is failing as Horatio takes a three-master on a vital reconnaissance mission. On the day of his marriage, Hornblower is ordered to head for Brest - war is coming and Napoleon will not catch His Majesty's navy with its britches[...]
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1815, the Napoleonic Wars are over. Yet peace continues to elude Horatio Hornblower overseas . . . As an admiral struggling to impose order in the chaotic aftermath of the French wars, Horatio Hornblower, Commander-in-chief of His Majesty's s[...]
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With the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannon shot and the noises of a mutinous crew all around him, the new Lieutenant Hornblower is going to need all of his seafaring cunning to overcome his first challenge in independen[...]
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'Hornblower fired. There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang. This is death, he thought. My pistol was the unloaded one.' But Horatio Hornblower does not die. He survives the duel with Simpson, learns to overcome his seasickness, and goes on[...]
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The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat. No one would take a boat like that down a dangerous river through the jungles of Central Africa during the First World War. But Rose Sayer and Charlie Allnut do just that. They come[...]
