C.S . Forester 's Peninsular War novels in Death to the French was titled `` Rifleman Dodd '' in the US .
Forester wrote many other novels , among them The African Queen ( 1935 ) and The General ( 1936 ) ; Peninsular War novels in Death to the French ( published in the United States as `` Rifleman Dodd '' ) and The Gun ( filmed as The Pride and the Passion in 1957 ) ; and seafaring stories that did not involve Hornblower , such as Brown on Resolution ( 1929 ) , The Ship ( 1943 ) and Hunting the Bismarck , which was used as the basis of the screenplay for the 1960 film Sink the Bismarck !
C. S. Forester