Flying Colours C.S. Forester

Name: Flying Colours By C.S. Forester
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Flying Colours by C.S. Forester

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SeriesA Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea

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Flying Colours by C.S. Forester

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea

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.

'A joyous creation, perfection in words' Conn Iggulden

About C.S. Forester

C. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899, where his father was stationed as a government official. He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, and after leaving Guy's without a degree he turned to writing as a career. On the outbreak of war he entered the Ministry of Information and later he sailed with the Royal Navy to collect material for The Ship. He made a voyage to the Bering Sea to gather material for a similar book on the United States Navy, and it was during this trip that he was stricken with arteriosclerosis, a disease which left him crippled. However, he continued to write and in the Hornblower novels created the most renowned sailor in contemporary fiction. He died in 1966.

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Sku

GOR009923598

ISBN 13

9781405936927

ISBN 10

1405936924

Title

Flying Colours by C.S. Forester

Author

C.S. Forester

Series

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Year published

20180614

Number of pages

272

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N/A

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