For my country's freedom
By: Alexander Kent
Series: Richard Bolitho -- 21
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780434001736
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy; Great Britain; Richard Bolitho (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: It is March 1811, and Richard Bolitho is recalled to duty after only two and a half months of precious peace in Cornwall with his beloved mistress Catherine. Promoted Admiral, his choice of flagship and flag captain shock the Admiralty, but Bolitho, poignantly aware of his own vulnerabilitiy, surrounds himself only with those men he can trust completely: the faithful Allday, the withdrawn and intelligent Avery, and James Tyacke, who must confront the sternest test of his loyalty with great personal courage. When diplomacy fails the cannon must speak, and Bolitho, patrolling the troubled waters from Antigua north to Halifax, knows that when war with America comes he must fight an enemy not foreign but familiar, for the freedom to leave the sea forever.