The Real Hornblower by Bryan Perrett
Here is the story of the genuine, true life naval officer that C.S. Forester based his best-selling Hornblower novels on. Forester's model for Horatio Hornblower was Admiral Gordon, the hero of Nelson's navy whose escapades mirror so many of Hornblower's adventures.
Bryan Perrett left the army as a successful career officer to take up the pen as a full-time writer. Able to write to any brief (he was captioning picture-strips for schoolgirl comics at one point), he found his metier as a military historian and writer of good, fast, episodic, narrative popular histories.His many books, all founded on meticulous research from primary sources, find a wide popular readership. He is the bestselling author in the bestselling C
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| ISBN 13 | 9781854094964 |
| ISBN 10 | 1854094963 |
| Title | The Real Hornblower |
| Author | Bryan Perrett |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 1998-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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