num_pages: 320
description: March 1818: Captain Adam Bolitho takes command of HMS Onward, grateful for employment at a time when other officers are languishing on the beach. He must accept both the honour and the challenge of his new command, in confronting old enemies and ambitious rivals to forge an uneasy alliance against corsairs and privateers in the Mediterranean.
language: English
title: Heart of Oak
titlecomplete: Heart of Oak (Adam Bolitho, #4)
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Military Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 481
series: Richard Bolitho, Adam Bolitho
publisher: William Heinemann