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"I recommend Forester to every literate I know." —Ernest Hemingway

"Vastly entertaining." —Winston Churchill

A shy and lonely seventeen-year-old, Horatio Hornblower embarks on a memorable career in Nelson's navy as a midshipman on board H.M.S. Justinian. In action adventure and battle he is forged into one of the most formidable junior officers in the service.

April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napolean is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower - who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy - commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. All the while, the introspective young commander stuggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed unhappy temperment" - matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonaparte's cannonballs.

Written by C. S. Forester - Performed by Ioan Gruffudd - Abridged Fiction - 2 CASSETTES

Publisher, Trafalgar Square (September 1999)