Title: For My Country's Freedom
First published: 1995
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of his own vulnerabilitiy, surrounds himself only with those men he can trust completely: the faithful Allday, the withdrawn and intelligent Avery, and James Tyacke, who must confront the sternest test of his loyalty with great personal courage.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.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Naval, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Naval History, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military, Sea stories, Great britain, fiction, Great Britain. Royal Navy, Great Britain, Fiction, sea stories, Fiction, historical, Fiction, action & adventure
Places: Great Britain
People: Richard Bolitho (Fictitious character)
Time periods: 19th century, 1800-1815
LC classification: PR6061.E63 F64 2000