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Hornblower #02 - Lieutenant Hornblower

✍ Scribed by C. S. Forester

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 157 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined.Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannonshot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafaring cunning to overcome his first challenge in independent command on the high seas. And while blood and violence flow thick and fast aboard a beleaguered HMS Renown, the aftermath of war promises intrigue of an entirely different order: Maria, a young señorita, who might just soften the steely resolve of a young lieutenant.This is the second of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.'One of the best . . . Everyone interested in war, or in human nature, should read this fascinating tale.' The Times Literary Supplement

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