Summary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010

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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1998

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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)

Summary: A prisoner of the French after he was forced to surrender his ship, Captain Horatio Hornblower faces a trial by his captor, if he can escape, a court-martial back in England.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1986

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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)

Summary: Captain Horatio Hornblower and the undaunted crew of the Sutherland set sail to rival the exploits of Napoleon's ships.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999

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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern library 1940

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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)

Summary: In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1985

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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)

Summary: Horatio Hornblower is only seventeen when he joins His Majesty's Royal Navy as a Midshipman. He's dangerously unschooled in seafaring and the ways of seamen, but he's saved by his quick, mathematical mind and keen eye.... This is where it all begins--where young Hornblower gets his sea legs and shows the makings of the legend he will later become.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1998

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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1985

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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)

Summary: After only one night with his bride, Hornblower, as commander of the frigate Hotspur, sails for duty off the French Coast to keep Napoleon from invading England.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1985

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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)

Summary: Relates Horatio's adventures as a Lieutenant until his promotion to Commander during the early years of the Napoleonic Wars.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1980

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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)

Summary: As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2000

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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1956

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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)

Summary: "The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018

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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)

Summary: On the threshold of securing his first post as captain, Hornblower finds himself forced by the exigencies of war to fight alongside a man whom he has unintentionally helped to court-martial.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1967

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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)

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Publisher / Publication Date: The press of the Readers club 1942

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Summary: Salty saga of the bravest skipper ever to sail the seas- Captain Horatio Hornblower. The English Captain sailed during the Napoleonic era, and out thought, outmaneuvered and outfought his rivals, but was more than a little at sea when faced with a beautiful woman!

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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

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Summary: The A & E miniseries based on Forester's novels of Horatio Hornblower, following his career from a reticent midshipman to a self-assured and courageous officer.

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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005

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Summary: Peacetime (1807). Hornblower is forced to make a living at the gaming tables and gets caught up in a budding romance with his landlady's daughter, Maria. Hornblower goes on a reconnaissance mission that uncovers French perfidy, leading to renewed war. Complications arise when he is betrayed and temporarily imprisoned. Hornblower and Maria get married.

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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E 2003

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