In this the 9th of series about Commodore Horatio Hornblower CS Forester makes the historic times real to readers. Now he has been promoted to Commodore and has the usual battles duing the war.Forester includes some of the bad and good times aboard a small ship with brackish undrinkable water requiring men to drink rum. The conditions are not comfortable and they are all far from families and communication for a long. Forester died in 1960 so is well aquatinted with modern life also but writes excellent historical novels. A believable writer of 11 in this series and many other books. ..
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I didn't get to read this,
I didn't get to read this, but I did enjoy watching the series when it was on A&E a couple of years ago.
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