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1) The General
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The book John Kelly reads every time he gets a promotion to remind him of 'the perils of hubris, the pitfalls of patriotism and duty unaccompanied by critical thinking' The most vivid, moving - and devastating - word-portrait of a World War One British commander ever written, here re-introduced by Max Hastings. C.S. Forester's 1936 masterpiece follows Lt General Herbert Curzon, who fumbled a fortuitous early step on the path to glory in the Boer War....
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In 1941, Hitler's deadly Bismarck, the fastest battleship afloat, broke out into the Atlantic. Its mission: to cut the lifeline of British shipping and win the war with one mighty blow. How the Royal Navy tried to meet this threat and its desperate attempt to bring the giant Bismarck to bay is the story C. S. Forester tells with mounting excitement and suspense!
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Before C.S. Forester achieved literary success with his famous saga of Captain Horatio Hornblower and the great romantic novels such as "The Africa Queen", he had a difficult time making his start as an author. “Long Before Forty” is the account of his lonely struggle to learn how to write. The concluding section, "Some Personal Notes," is a memoir of his creation of the famous Captain Hornblower!
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Introducing the gallant hero of "Beat to Quarters," Captain Hornblower, in the first of a series of grand adventures. For his first command after escaping from France, Hornblower is given charge of the royal yacht - and he soon requires all his skill and instinct to prevent disaster!
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 2
Pub. Date
1952
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
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Relates Horatio's adventures as a Lieutenant until his promotion to Commander during the early years of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
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Recounts the early years of Horatio Hornblower's captaincy, in which the young hero is stretched to the utmost by adventures at home and in the Mediterranean.
12) Lord Hornblower
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Pub. Date
1946
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IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
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Once again the indomitable Hornblower risks his career in the fight against Napoleon. Allied with him is his old love Marie. She is by no means the least of the obstacles in the way of his return to the arms of Lady Barbara.
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[1940]
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IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Reprint of the 1935 novel about Rose, a spinster working as a missionary in Africa, and Allnutt, a mechanic-of-all-work, who team up out of necessity and hatch a plan to help the war effort by building and launching torpedoes at a German police steamer.
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 1
Pub. Date
c1950
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 15
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In 1793, a naïve seventeen-year-old English midshipman named Horatio Hornblower is ordered to board and capture a French merchant ship.
17) Beat to quarters
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Pub. Date
1937
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IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Captain Hornblower has been ordered to find a water route across the Central American isthmus and destroy a fifty-gun Spanish ship, but Hornblower finds himself distracted by his newest passenger, the beautiful Lady Barbara Wellesley.
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C.S. Forester, creator of the beloved Horatio Hornblower series, takes young readers on an exciting adventure to the shores of Tripoli in North Africa. That's where, more than 200 years ago, the United States was threatened by "pirates" who snatched American merchant ships and imprisoned sailors-and the country's young, untested navy took on the task of fighting the pirates in their home waters. This true tale features thrilling ocean battles, hand-to-hand...
19) Flying colours
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1999, c1938
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IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
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Hornblower becomes a national hero when he escapes a French firing squad, but the terror of the Mediterranean becomes Europe's most wanted man, forced to fight alone for England--and liberty.
