Hornblower's Navy: Life at Sea in the Age of Nelson

In this lively study of the British Royal Navy and the men who turned it into the most phenomenal war machine of its day, author Stephen Pope dives into the waves over which Britannia ruled to uncover the fictional realm of C.S. Forester's great hero Horatio Hornblower and the brutal, dramatic, real-life world that inspired Hornblower's adventures.

Lavishly illustrated and compulsively readable, here is the intriguing history of a unique and colourful era in which ordinary men rose to extraordinary heights to claim the oceans as their own.

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Hardcover

111 pages

Condition: Used - Good

Originally published: Welcome Rain 1998

ISBN: 978-0752817743