Hornblower Companion by C S Forester

Hornblower Companion by C S Forester

In this companion C.S. Forester sets out to describe and illuminate, using beautifully drawn charts, all the incidents which his fictional hero has experienced in the Hornblower novels. He also describes how the novels were written, what inspired the adventures and how they relate to the real world of the Royal Navy.

C. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899. After studying medicine, he rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. On the outbreak of World War Two he worked for the British Ministry of Information in America writing propaganda. His most notable works were the twelve Horatio Hornblower books, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and 'The African Queen'. His novels 'A Ship of the Line' and 'Flying Colours' were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. He died in 1966.

Max Hastings is the author of twenty-six books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, of which the most recent are All Hell Let Loose, Catastrophe and The Secret War, best-sellers translated around the world. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.

SKU	Non disponible
ISBN 13	9781861760982
ISBN 10	1861760981
Titre	Hornblower Companion
Auteur	C S Forester
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Greenhill Books
Année de publication	1998-10-01
Nombre de pages	144
Note de couverture	La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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