Hornblower during the Crisis by C S Forester

Hornblower during the Crisis by C S Forester

The 11th and final volume in C.S.Forester's Hornblower series. Also included are two stories "Hornblower's Temptation" and "The Last Encounter" - depicting Hornblower in youth and old age respectively.

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.

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ISBN 13	9780316289443
ISBN 10	0316289442
Title	Hornblower during the Crisis
Author	C S Forester
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown & Company
Year published	1990-04-18
Number of pages	192
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