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The Commodore
  • Imprint: Penguin

  • Published: 14/06/2018

  • ISBN: 9781405936934

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 266g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Commodore

  • (A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea - 8)

C.S. Forester

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1812 and the fate of Europe lies in the hands of newly appointed Commodore Hornblower . . .

Dispatched to northern waters to protect Britain's Baltic interests, Horatio Hornblower must halt the advance of Napoleon's empire into Sweden and Russia. But first he must battle the terrible Baltic weather: fog, snow and icebound waterways; overcome Russian political and commercial intrigues; avoid the seductive charms of royalty as well as the deadly reach of assassins in the imperial palace; and contend with hostile armies and French privateers. With the fate of Europe balanced on a knife edge, the responsibility lies heavy on a Commodore's shoulders ...

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

'A recipe for pure pleasure' Bernard Cornwell

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • Published: 14/06/2018

  • ISBN: 9781405936934

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 266g

  • RRP: £8.99


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About the Author

C.S. Forester

C. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899, where his father was stationed as a government official. On the outbreak of war he entered the Ministry of Information and later he sailed with the Royal Navy. In the HORNBLOWER novels created the most renowned sailor in contemporary fiction. He died in 1966.

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