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Soon to be the major motion picture Greyhound, a WWII naval thriller of "high and glittering excitement" (New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower seriesThe 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 t...

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So they went on down the wild river, deafened and drenched.

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Als der Erste Weltkrieg auch in den Dschungel Afrikas vordringt, finden sich Charlie Allnut, ein Mechaniker aus Londons Unterschicht mit zweifelhaftem Ruf, und Rose Sayer, die gestrenge, unverheiratete Missionarin, in einer unverhofften Schicksalsgemeinschaft wieder. Sie flüchten mit dem maroden Dampfboot African Queen auf dem gefährlichen Ulanga-Fluss, wobei ihnen neben Hitze und Malaria, Gewehrschüssen und Stromschnellen auch allerlei gegens...

Famous as a Hollywood film starring Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.

A classic novel about the Peninsular War from the celebrated author of the HORNBLOWER series

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A novel which presents a portrait of WWI British commander Herbert Curzon, in a new edition introduced by Max Hastings. First published in 1936, it's from the author of the Horatio Hornblower series.

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In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean Fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters a...

The year is 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Horatio Hornblower, a seventeen-year-old boy unschooled in seafaring and the ways of seamen, is ordered to board a French merchant ship and take command of crew and cargo for the glory of England. Though not an unqualified success, this first naval adventure teaches the young midshipman enough to launch him on a series of increasingly glorious exploits. This novel-in which young Horatio get...

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Although unfinished at the time of C. S. Forester's death, Hornblower During the Crisis delivers a full measure of action at sea-the hallmark of this incomparably exciting series of historical adventures. On the threshold of securing his first post as captain, Hornblower finds himself forced by the exigencies of war to fight alongside a man whom he has unintentionally helped to court-martial. And for the first time Hornblower assents to engagi...

These thrilling tales of high-seas adventure in the Napoleonic era, which Winston Churchill found "vastly entertaining" 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.-- The Hornblower renaissance is in full sail with a nearly tenfold increase in sales: more than I5O, OOO Ho...

June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner, to find a water route across the Central American isthmus, and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial....

In this gripping tale of turmoil and triumph on the high seas, Horatio Hornblower emerges from his apprenticeship as midshipman to face new responsibilities thrust upon him by the fortunes of war between Napoleon and Spain. Enduring near-mutiny, bloody hand-to-hand combat with Spanish seamen, deck-splintering sea battles, and the violence and horror of life on the fighting ships of the Napoleonic Wars, the young lieutenant distinguishes himsel...