Sailing through the Napoleonic Wars
Explore the best books on sailing during the Napoleonic Wars. Discover thrilling naval battles, strategies, and histories of the era's most famous warships and commanders.
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Hornblower and the Hotspur
by C. S. Forester
April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower-who, at age …
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Beat to Quarters
by C. S. Forester
With rations running dangerously low, Captain Hornblower fears that the lure of the South Sea islands may entice the crew to mutiny.
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Flying Colours
by C. S. Forester
Forced to surrender his ship, the Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower now bides his time as a prisoner in a …
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Commodore Hornblower
by C. S. Forester
These thrilling tales of high-seas adventure in the Napoleonic era, which Winston Churchill found "vastly entertaining" and Ernest Hemingway recommended to "every literate I know", …
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Lord Hornblower
by C. S. Forester
Hornblower is tasked with a dangerous rescue mission in this "enthralling" chapter (New York Times) in C. S. Forester's beloved naval adventure series. Weary of …
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Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
by Patrick O'Brian
The beginning of the sweeping Aubrey-Maturin series. "The best sea story I have ever read."—Sir Francis Chichester This, the first in the splendid series of …
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Post Captain (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
by Patrick O'Brian
"Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations, Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them...a brilliant book." —Mary Renault "We've beat them before and we'll beat them …
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H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
by Patrick O'Brian
Capt. Aubrey and his friend Maturin sail to the Indian Ocean to save the British merchant fleet from the French.
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The Mauritius Command (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
by Patrick O'Brian
During the Napoleonic wars, British naval captain Jack Aubrey, charged with capturing the French islands of Reunion and Mauritius, must first cope with his fellow …
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The Nutmeg of Consolation (Vol. Book 14) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
by Patrick O'Brian
Captain Aubrey, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane are shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East …
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