Flying Colours - Hardcover

Forester, C. S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0854561773 ISBN 13: 9780854561773

Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd, 1973

Synopsis

Before there was Patrick O'Brian, there was C. S. Forester, said the Wall Street Journal in a recent review that described the eleven-volume series of Horatio Hornblower novels as spellbinding. This epic saga of turmoil and triumph on the high seas, which recounts the exploits of one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy as he wrestles with his own accursed unhappy temperament and as he sails valiantly into battle after battle against Napoleon's forces, has delighted millions of readers since the series debuted in 1938.

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Book Description

Read by the star of the new TV series, another of C.S. Forester's famous Hornblower novels on abridged audio for the first time.

From the Back Cover

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 Hornblower is held prisoner in a French fortress. Prospects turn bleaker when he learns that he and Lt. Bush are to be tried and executed in Paris as part of Napoleon's attempts to rally the war-weary Empire. Even if Hornblower can escape this fate and make it safe to England, he still faces court-martial for surrendering his ship. With little hope for the future and little left to lose, Hornblower throws caution to the wind once more.

This is the seventh of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.

'I find Hornblower admirable, vastly entertaining' Sir Winston Churchill

Edition details

• Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0854561773
• ISBN 13: 9780854561773
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 384