Horatio Hornblower is the most enduring military hero in British fiction. Our apparently insatiable appetite for his adventures owes a great deal to the storytelling gifts of C.S. Forester, but also to their stirring context. As an officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, Hornblower comes to us from a uniquely romantic niche in modern history. Forester's great fictional commander inhabits a time of real heroes and adventurers unique in the illustrious history of the Royal Navy. In two decades of almost ...
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Horatio Hornblower is the most enduring military hero in British fiction. Our apparently insatiable appetite for his adventures owes a great deal to the storytelling gifts of C.S. Forester, but also to their stirring context. As an officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, Hornblower comes to us from a uniquely romantic niche in modern history. Forester's great fictional commander inhabits a time of real heroes and adventurers unique in the illustrious history of the Royal Navy. In two decades of almost continuous warfare after 1793, His Majesty's warships and their crews achieved a blend of skill and inspiration that swept aside all possible rivals, kept powerful invaders at bay, and made its blockades a noose to strangle Britain's enemies. Ultimately opposed by every other sea power on earth, Hornblower's Navy triumphed to emerge as the first truly global fighting force and the prime arbiter of world affairs for a hundred years to come. This book tells the extraordinary truth behind the dash and glory of Hornblower and his time. It tells of a service redefined by Jervis, Nelson and new breed of fighting commanders. It explains the Navy's vital roles as both sword and shield of a British Empire in crisis. It describes St. Vincent, the Nile, Trafalgar and the other epic battles that announced a new epoch in naval history, and it sheds light on the one defeat, by an infant U.S. Navy, that hinted at a distant new order. Above all, it takes the reader inside the amazing world of the Navy's floating fortresses, and reveals the brutal, dramatic lives and deaths of the men on the frontiers of human endeavour. Lavish illustrations, many of them selected fromcontemporary sources, complement the text to complete a spectacular and enthralling picture of the phenomenal war machine that was Hornblower's Navy.
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