By C. S. Forester - Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962-06-16) [Hardcover]

Description:

April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower -- who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy -- commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed and unhappy temperament" -- matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonaparte's cannonballs. - Back cover.

subjects: Fiction, action & adventure,  Great britain, fiction,  Hornblower, horatio (fictitious character), fiction,  Peninsular war, 1807-1814, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Literature,  Open Library Staff Picks,  Fiction in English,  Horatio Hornblower (Fictitious character),  Fiction,  Naval History,  Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815,  Fiction, historical,  English literature,  Guerres napoléoniennes, 1800-1815,  Romans, nouvelles,  Histoire navale

Places: Great Britain,  Grande-Bretagne

Times: 19th century,  19e siècle