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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 8
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These thrilling tales of high-seas adventure in the Napoleonic era, which Winston Churchill found "vastly enteratining" and Ernest Hemingway recommended to "every literate I know", are being eagerly embraced by a new generation of readers. Back Bay takes pleasure in reissuing these classic tales in handsome new trade paperback editions.
7) The general
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Herbert Curzon is a former cavalry officer who earned fortuitous distinction in the Boer War. He knew little then; he learned nothing since. But the army, desperate for officers in the opening months of WW I, hands Curzon, a new division to train. A few months later his formations dissolve at the Somme, hosed down by German machine guns. Uninstructed, Curzon still thinks himself a leader. When a German offensive threatens his remaining troops, he...
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First published in 1935, CS Forester's classic romantic adventure is a tale of opposites attracted. Allnut and Rose, a disreputable Cockney and an English spinster missionary, wend their way down a river in Central Africa in a rickety, asthmatic steam launch, and are gradually joined together in a mission of retaliation against the Germans. Fighting time, heat, malaria and bullets, the two have a dramatic rapprochement before the explosive ending...
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"The mission of the commander was to lead the protecting screen of four escort vessels convoying thirty-seven Allied merchantment across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. It was in the most critical days of World War II, when the German submarines had the upper hand and Allied shipping was suffering heavy losses. The tense, concentrated action begins when Commander Krause is called to the bridge just after he has taken a much-deserved...
12) Lord Hornblower
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 9
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English
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As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.
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The story is one of the grandest stories ever told of that last thrilling period of naval sailing ships, the Napoleonic era, when the wooden walls of England's navy were the envy of the world and American sailors were the only ones who cared to meet English sailors ship for ship.
14) Greyhound
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Penguin Books
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2019.
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"The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the...
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