Colours Aloft - Softcover

Kent, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099497689 ISBN 13: 9780099497684

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

"Colours Aloft!", the sixteenth Richard Bolitho novel, bears all the hallmarks of its best-selling predecessors. It is September 1803. Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds himself the new master of the Argonaute, a French flagship taken in battle. With the Peace of Armiens in ruins, he must leave the safety of Falmouth. What lies ahead is the grim reality of war at close quarters - where Bolitho who will be called upon to anticipate the overall intention of the French fleet. But the battle has also become a personal vendetta between himself and the French admiral who formerly sailed the Argonaute. Bolitho and his men are driven to a final rendezvous where no quarter is asked or given.

About this title

About the Author

Alexander Kent's great interest in the ships and men of the eighteenth century navy was aroused when he was still at school. Although he attended fleet reviews and explored modern warships and dockyards with his father, he found that the great days of square riggers and battles at close quarters captured his imagination. H.M.S. Victory, Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, was always high on his list of regular visits.

He served in the Royal Navy as a young man, and saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic and other major theatres of war, but his first love of the great days of sail remained unshaken.

Now firmly established as a leading writer of authentic sea stories, he was the author of twenty-eight acclaimed books featuring Richard Bolitho. Under his own name, Douglas Reeman, and in the course of a career spanning forty-five years, he wrote over thirty novels and two non-fiction books. He died in January 2017.

From the Back Cover

September 1803

Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds himself the new master of the Argonaute, a French flagship taken in battle. With the Peace of Armiens in ruins, he must leave the safety of Falmouth.

What lies ahead is the grim reality of war at close quarters - where Bolitho who will be called upon to anticipate the overall intention of the French fleet. But the battle has also become a personal vendetta between himself and the French admiral who formerly sailed the Argonaute.

Bolitho and his men are driven to a final rendezvous where no quarter is asked or given.

'One of our foremost writers of naval fiction ... authentic, inspiring, well characterized and, finally, moving' Sunday Times

Edition details

• Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099497689
• ISBN 13: 9780099497684
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288