Claim: C. S. Forester wrote warfare tales of Horatio Hornblower.

Flying Colours is a Horatio Hornblower novel by C. S. Forester , originally published 1938 as the third in the series , but now eighth by internal chronology . It describes the adventures of Hornblower and his companions escaping from imprisonment in Napoleonic France and returning to England . It is one of three Hornblower novels adapted into the 1951 British-American film Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. .