Title: Hornblower and the "Hotspur"
First published: November 1, 2007
Description: April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower -- who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy -- commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed and unhappy temperament" -- matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonaparte's cannonballs. - Back cover.
Subjects: Fiction, action & adventure, Great britain, fiction, Hornblower, horatio (fictitious character), fiction, Peninsular war, 1807-1814, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Literature, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction in English, Horatio Hornblower (Fictitious character), Fiction, Naval History, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Fiction, historical, English literature, Guerres napoléoniennes, 1800-1815, Romans, nouvelles, Histoire navale
Places: Great Britain, Grande-Bretagne
Time periods: 19th century, 19e siècle