C S Forester: 63 books

 First published in 1954, The Adventures of John Wetherell, is part of a much larger manuscript professing to be a diary kept by seaman John Porritt Wetherell, a native of Whitby, England who was born in 1780 and died sometime after 1834.  John Wetherell's records of his nautical life have...

The dramatic story of a man who was also a god. That man exchanges heavenly omnipotence for earthly power, and tells how the exchange was accompanied by the first faint intimations of human love - a story as old as Adam, and as new as sky travel. In the beginning Loa was all-powerful in his tiny native...

We now find Captain Horatio Hornblower elevated to the peerage in this volume 10 of the Hornblower Saga. He must save a tyrannical officer from his mutinied crew, advance the Bourbon cause in Le Harve as the city changes it allegiance away from Napoleon, and wage a guerilla fight with his old love Marie at his side. Only to find himself captured and condemned to death.

A commander of a German U boat UB-116 plans and executes a suicide attack on the British fleet in Scapa Flow in the final days of WW I.  Based on real events and well researched, there can be no victory for the crew.  The moral dilemma is agonizing, but clear. Honor or dishonor, but at what...

Here we meet Horatio Hornblower, a young man of 17, in this Volume #1 of what becomes the 11 volume set about the career of this British Naval officer fighting against Napoleon and his tyranny of Europe in the late seventeen hundreds. Bullied and forced into a duel, he takes an even chance. And then...

The plan was for the  Bismarck to break out into the Atlantic — the very phrase indicates one of the problems faced by German sea power, getting past the British Isles — and operate beyond land-based air power, running amok amongst allied convoys.

Sailing the frigate "Lydia" in South American waters, Captain Hornblower has orders to sink the "Natividad", a Spanish two-decker. But this proves the least of his worries, for he is also commanded to aid the revolutionary El Supremo, a madman whose bestialities stagger the Spanish authorities.

The story of a vapid bank clerk who descended to murder for the sake of a bank roll and immediate security, and who spent the rest of his life guarding the secret burial spot in the dingy city backyard, while his family ran riot on the money he more or less accidentally made on a fluke. The interest...

To The Indies is the story of Don Narciso Rich, a lawyer for Their Highnesses of Spain, who is sent on an ocean voyage with Admiral Cristo Columbus himself for further search for the treasures of the Indies and renewed government supervision of the original colonies.  He survives not only physical...

The celebrated author of the Hornblower series presents the biography of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, the victor of the naval battle of Trafalgar.

Napoleon and His Court is a well-researched, comprehensive and delightfully written biography by the celebrated author of the Hornblower series and other great novels.

Der Klassiker unter den Seefahrerepen: Horatio Hornblowers achtes Abenteuer.In der sturmumtosten Ostsee muss der Kommodore Hornblower gleich an zwei Fronten kämpfen: Durch geschickte Diplomatie gelingt es ihm, den russischen Zaren davon zu überzeugen, an der Seite Englands gegen Frankreich in den...

Der Klassiker unter den Seefahrerepen: Horatio Hornblowers siebtes Abenteuer.Hornblower ist in die Hände der Franzosen geraten, die ihn schwer bewacht nach Paris bringen wollen, wo ihm der Tod durch die Salven der napoleonischen Garden droht. Doch zuvor gelingt ihm die Flucht, auf der er sich zur...

Der Klassiker unter den Seefahrerepen: Horatio Hornblowers zehntes Abenteuer.Erneut kann Hornblower der französischen Haft entkommen. Der frisch ernannte Konteradmiral, mit Oberbefehl über die britische Flotte in der Karibik, schafft es, Napoleons Flucht von St. Helena zu vereiteln. Doch da sind...