Forester C. S. Boeken

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea May, 1810 - and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line . . . Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is 'the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy' and a crew shortage means he must recruit two hundred and fifty landlubbers, Hornblower knows that by the time Sutherland and her squadron reach the blockaded Catalonian coast every seaman will do his duty. But with daring raids against the French army and navy to be made, it will take all Hornblower's seamanship - and stewardship - to steer a steady course to victory and home . . . This is the sixth of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower. 'I recommend Forester to every literate I know' Ernest Hemingway

June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial. A daunting enough set of orders-even if the happily married captain were not woefully distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: Lady Barbara Wellesley.

THE GRIPPING NAVAL THRILLER, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING TOM HANKS _______ 1942. America enters the war and an untested officer receives his first wartime command . . . Ploughing through icy, submarine-infested North Atlantic seas is a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships, carrying vital Allied supplies. In charge is Commander Krause, a grizzled but unproven veteran of the U.S. Navy. Over the next forty-eight hours he will stay on watch aboard the bridge of his destroyer as the convoy is hounded by a murderous wolf pack of German U-boats determined to sink every ship without trace. But armed with extraordinary courage and grit, Commander Krause will battle the U-boats, tiredness, self-doubt and self-reproach, as he desperately tries to protect the ships and lives under his command . . . This classic wartime novel is a thrillingly taut tale of bravery and determination against all odds, set during the darkest moments of the Second World War. _______ Praise for C. S. Forester 'Action, tension, tingling suspense . . . The greatest adventure story to come out of World War II' Life Magazine 'I recommend Forester to every literate I know' Ernest Hemingway 'I find Hornblower admirable, vastly entertaining' Sir Winston Churchill

1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession . . . After near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first assignment as Captain, taking charge of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop that will act as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon the Atropos is part of the Mediterranean fleet's assault upon Napoleon, and Captain Hornblower must execute a bold and daring salvage operation for buried treasure lying deep in Turk waters. Under the guns of a suspicious port captain and the threat of a Spanish frigate more than double Atropos's size, Hornblower must steer his ship unscathed and triumphant . . . This is the fourth of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C.S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.

The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat. No one would expect a missionary's sister & a rough, uneducated mechanic to take a boat like that down a dangerous river through the forests of Central Africa. But Rose Sayer & Charlie Allnutt do just that. The First World War has just begun, & Rose has a crazy plan.

Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. Slowly the Marble family becomes poisoned by guilt, and caught in a trap of secrets, fear and blackmail. Then Mrs Marble ensures that retribution comes in the most unexpected of ways...

Kapitan Hornblower, dowódca fregaty Lidia zmierzającej ku wybrzeżom Ameryki Południowej, ma rozkaz zatopić Natividad, wielki okręt hiszpański. To jednak najmniejsze z jego zmartwień, gdyż jego zadaniem jest również udzielenie pomocy rebeliantowi, El Supremo, okrutnemu szaleńcowi, który ma zadać cios zamorskim posiadłościom hiszpańskiemu imperium.

Chefen på skibet "Renown" er på det nærmeste sindssyg. Han vakler på grænsen til galskab, og det går ud over hans mandskab. Horatio Hornblower er den yngste om bord. Men da de kommer til vestindiske farvande er det alligevel Hornblower, der får held til at besejre denne ellers så overlegne fjende.

Romanen "Kaptajn Hornblower" var den første Hornblower-roman C.S. Forester udgav. Bogen blev populær og læsernes efterspørgsel gjorde, at han i alt skrev 12 romaner om sømanden Horatio Hornblower. "Kaptajn Hornblower" som er fra 1937 endte med at blive seriens bind 6, hvis man skal følge seriens indre kronologi. Romanen tager sin begyndelse i 1808 hvor Hornblower har kommandoen over HMS Lydia - en fregat med 36 kanoner. Han har fået ordre om at sejle til Stillehavet, nærmere betegnet Nicaraguas kyst og levere støtte til en lokal godsejer i form at krudt og skydevåben. Planen er at godsejeren Don Julian Alvarado skal gøre oprør mod Spanien - som er Frankrigs og Napoleons allierede. Men da Hornblower ankommer til Nicaragua viser det sig, at godsejeren er blevet rablende gal og nu kalder sig selv for el Supremo (Den Almægtige). Hornblower forstår, at godsejeren nu har sin helt egen dagsorden og da det spanske skib Natividad ankommer med sine 50 kanoner står Hornblower over for sin karrieres største udfordring.