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  1. The African Queen (Storpocket)

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    C. S. Forester, C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780753820797 - UTGIVEN: 200611

    The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat - not the kind of boat anyone would take down a dangerous river through the jungles of Central Africa. But Rose Sayer and Charlie Allnut do just that. Why do they do it? The First World War has just begun, and Rose has a crazy plan. She [...]

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    från 95.00 kr
  2. General (Inbunden)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780007580057 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05

    A superb yet neglected novel, 'The General' is the most vivid, moving - and devastating - word-portrait of a World War One British commander ever written, here re-introduced by Max Hastings.[...]

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    från 219.00 kr
  3. The General (Storpocket)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780007580071 - UTGIVEN: 2015-02

    A superb yet neglected novel, 'The General' is the most vivid, moving - and devastating - word-portrait of a World War One British commander ever written, here re-introduced by Max Hastings. Best known for his Hornblower novels, C.S. Forester's 1936 masterpiece follows Herbert Curzon, who fumbled a [...]

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    från 101.00 kr
  4. Captain Hornblower R.N. (Storpocket)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780140081770 - UTGIVEN: 198705

    "Hornblower and the Atropos" - Skippering the flagship for Nelson's funeral on the Thames is not Hornblower's idea of thrilling action. But soon his orders come, and he sets sail for the Mediterranean in the Atropos. 'Battle, storm, shipwreck, disease - what were the chances that he would never come[...]

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    från 154.00 kr
  5. The Young Hornblower Omnibus (Storpocket)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780140119398 - UTGIVEN: 198912

    This book introduces the most gallant and redoubtable figure in naval history - Horatio Hornblower. The seventeen year old Hornblower became infamous as soon as he stepped on board ship as the midshipman who was seasick in the Spithead, but things were soon to change. Amid battle, action and adventu[...]

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    från 190.00 kr
  6. Admiral Hornblower (Storpocket)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780140119404 - UTGIVEN: 199005

    An omnibus edition incorporating four of Forester's novels about Hornblower, including "Flying Colours", "The Commodore", "Lord Hornblower" and "Hornblower in the West Indies", which describe his adventures from the Mediterranean to Havana.[...]

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    från 127.00 kr
  7. Payment Deferred (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780141198101 - UTGIVEN: 201111

    Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. In fact, his troubles are only just beginning. Slowly the Marble family becomes poisoned by guilt, and caught in [...]

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    från 135.00 kr
  8. Flying Colours (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780241955499 - UTGIVEN: 201109

    A humiliated and shipless captive of the French, Horatio Hornblower faces execution unless he can escape and make a triumphant return to England ...Forced to surrender his ship, HMS Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower is held prisoner in a French fortress. Prospect[...]

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    från 106.00 kr
  9. Mr Midshipman Hornblower (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780241955505 - UTGIVEN: 201109

    1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command ...As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy. Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay [...]

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    från 97.00 kr
  10. Lieutenant Hornblower (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780241955512 - UTGIVEN: 201109

    The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined. Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannonshot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafa[...]

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    från 106.00 kr
  11. Hornblower and the Atropos (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780241955529 - UTGIVEN: 201109

    It's 1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession ...After near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first assignment as Captain, taking charge of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop that will act as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soo[...]

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    från 110.00 kr
  12. The Happy Return (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780241955536 - UTGIVEN: 201109

    It's June, 1808 - and off the Coast of Nicaragua Captain Horatio Hornblower has his hands full ...Now in command of HMS Lydia, a thirty-six-gun frigate, Hornblower has instructions to form an alliance against the Spanish colonies with a mad and messianic revolutionary, El Supremo; to find a water ro[...]

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    från 109.00 kr
  13. Hornblower and the Crisis (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780241955543 - UTGIVEN: 201109

    The final Horatio Hornblower story tells of Napoleon's plans to invade England ...Set in 1805, "Hornblower and the Crisis" finds Horatio Hornblower in possession of confidential dispatches from Bonaparte after a vicious hand-to-hand encounter with a French brig. The admiralty rewards Hornblower by s[...]

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    från 109.00 kr
  14. Hornblower and the Hotspur (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780241955550 - UTGIVEN: 201109

    It's April 1803, and the Peace of Amiens is failing as Horatio Hornblower takes a three-master on a vital reconnaissance mission ...On the day of his marriage to Maria, Hornblower is ordered to take the Hotspur and head for Brest - war is coming and Napoleon will not catch His Majesty's navy with it[...]

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    från 107.00 kr
  15. Hornblower in the West Indies (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780241955567 - UTGIVEN: 201109

    It's 1815, the Napoleonic Wars are over. Yet peace continues to elude Horatio Hornblower overseas ...As an admiral struggling to impose order in the chaotic aftermath of the French wars, Horatio Hornblower, Commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, must still face sav[...]

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    från 103.00 kr
  16. The Commodore (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780241955574 - UTGIVEN: 201109

    It's 1812 and the fate of Europe lies in the hands of newly appointed Commodore Hornblower ...Dispatched to northern waters to protect Britain's Baltic interests, Horatio Hornblower must halt the advance of Napoleon's empire into Sweden and Russia. But first he must battle the terrible Baltic weathe[...]

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    från 103.00 kr
  17. A Ship of the Line (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780241955581 - UTGIVEN: 201109

    It's May, 1810 - and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line ...Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is 'the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy' and a crew shortage means he must recruit two hundred and fifty landlubbers, Hornb[...]

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    från 102.00 kr
  18. Lord Hornblower (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780241955598 - UTGIVEN: 201109

    It's 1813, and Horatio Hornblower is propelled toward the heart of the French Empire and his old enemy, Napoleon ...Sir Horatio Hornblower has received strict and highly confidential orders from the highest rank: he must embark upon a grave and perilous mission to recapture the Flame in the Bay of S[...]

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    från 106.00 kr
  19. The African Queen (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780316289108 - UTGIVEN: 198406

    This novel is about an action in WW I between German forces and what might be called British irregulars. Rose Sayer, sister of an English missionary in German Central Africa, seems an unlikely heroine until her brother dies and she takes responsibility for her own life. With a gin drinking engineer,[...]

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    från 119.00 kr
  20. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780316289122 - UTGIVEN: 198409

    Horatio Hornblower was born in C.S. Forester's fertile imagination and became arguably more famous, certainly more personal, than Nelson, Cook and Drake combined. He fought in a dozen major campaigns during the Napoleonic wars, and it was in these pages that we first got a glimmer of just how much B[...]

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    från 142.00 kr
  21. Hornblower and the Atropos (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780316289290 - UTGIVEN: 198504

    This is the seventh novel in the Horatio Hornblower saga. In it, Hornblower emerges from his apprenticeship as midshipman to assume the responsibilities that await him as a lieutenant. Chronologically this novel falls between MR. MIDSHIPMAN HORNBLOWER and CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER. It works us alon[...]

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    från 103.00 kr
  22. Beat to Quarters (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780316289320 - UTGIVEN: 198509

    Another exciting addition to our growing collection of sea stories, BEAT TO QUARTERS is a favorite among devotees of Horatio Hornblower, England's most durable sailor. The creation of C.S. Forester (AFRICAN QUEEN, THE GOOD SHEPHERD), Hornblower is known and admired throughout the Western world. Wins[...]

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    från 102.00 kr
  23. Ship of the Line (Häftad)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780316289368 - UTGIVEN: 198509

    This sixth installment in C. S. Forester's eleven-volume chronicle of Horatio Hornblower places the captain in the gravest danger yet. The time is May, 1810, deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Hornblower, newly in command of his first ship of the line is on his way to Spain with a ragtag, brutish crew. [...]

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    från 169.00 kr
  24. Commodore Hornblower (Pocket)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780316289382 - UTGIVEN: 198904

    In this ninth volume in the Hornblower series, the incomparable Horatio Hornblower, recently knighted and settled in as squire of the village of Smallbridge, has been designated commodore of his own squadron of ships, led by the two-decker "Nonsuch" and bound for the Baltic. It is 1812, and Hornblow[...]

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    från 109.00 kr
  25. Flying Colours (Pocket)

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    C. S. Forester

    ISBN: 9780316289399 - UTGIVEN: 198904

    This seventh volume in the Hornblower series opens with Captain Horatio Hornblower a prisoner in the French fortress of Rosas, having had to surrender his ship, the "Sutherland," after a long and bloody battle. Within days he and his first lieutenant, Bush, who was crippled in the last fight, will b[...]

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    från 129.00 kr