β Scribed by Alexander Kent
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Sir Richard Bolitho returns from a wearing campaign in North American waters to take up a command in Malta. As England's long war with Napoleon reaches its end, will Richard Bolitho's longing for peaceβboth public and personalβbe fulfilled?
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