Cecil Scott Forester, an Englishman, was born in Cairo in 1899, the son of a British army officer. He was educated in London, and for a time he studied medicine. After a World War I stint in the infantry, however, he decided to be a poet. This was a shortlived pursuit and he soon turned to biography and fiction. He then wrote many best-selling novels—African Queen and The General among them—before he wrote the first of his Hornblower stories in 1937. That first book was Beat to Quarters, chronologically the fifth volume in tracing the career of Hornblower. In 1940 Forester moved to Berkeley, California, where he lived for many years between his World War II and postwar travels. In April of 1966, while writing Hornblower and the Crisis, C. S. Forester died. Today, the popularity of his writing still continues to grow, and the names of both Forester and Hornblower have become synonymous with the greatest names in naval literature.
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Lord Hornblower
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The gun
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
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Hornblower and the Atropos
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Hornblower and the Hotspur
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A ship of the line
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Flying colours
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The good shepherd
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Lieutenant Hornblower
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The Hornblower Saga
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Brown on Resolution
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Death to the French
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Payment deferred
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Hornblower in the West Indies
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The captain from Connecticut
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The general
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Captain Hornblower, R.N
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The earthly paradise
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Plain murder
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The commodore
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Randall and the river of time
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Commodore Hornblower
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The young hornblower
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The man in the yellow raft: short stories
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The sky and the forest
6 editions - first published in 1948 Borrow -
Beat to quarters
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Nelson: a biography.
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The Hornblower companion
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Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
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Napoleon and his court
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The peacemaker
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To the Indies
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Hunting the Bismarck
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Beat to Quarters (Hornblower Saga
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Long before forty
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The Barbary pirates
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Age of a Fighting S
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Victor Emmanuel II and the union of Italy
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Marionettes at home
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Flying Colors: The Hornblower Saga #7
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The last nine days of the Bismarck
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Hornblowers triumph
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Louis XIV, king of France and Navarre
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Hornblower in Captivity
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The nightmare
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Admiral Hornblower in West Indies
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The Annie Marble in Germany
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Hornblower auf der' Hotspur'
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Hornblower wird Kommandant
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Kadett Hornblower
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Lord Nelson
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Love lies dreaming
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The naval war of 1812
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Two-and-twenty
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The indomitable Hornblower: Commodore Hornblower, Lord Hornblower [and] Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (complete novels).
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The voyage of the Annie Marble: With 39 illustrations and a map.
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Sterling Point Books: The Barbary Pirates (Sterling Point Books)
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Lord Hornblower (Hornblower Saga
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Single-Handed
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Hornblower During the Crisis (Hornblower Saga
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Lieutenant Hornblower
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The Daughter of the Hawk
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The hostage: With Envelope (Travelman Adventure)
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Admiral Hornblower in W-V3
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Age of Fighting Sail the
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Banderas Al Viento
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The Commodore (Horatio Hornblower Adventures) (Horatio Hornblower Adventures)
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Commodore Hornblo-V01
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Commodore Hornblower / C. S. Forester
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Der Kapitän. Ein Roman um Hornblower
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El Guardiamarina Hornblower
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El Teniente de Navio Hornblower
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Fahnrich zur see Hornblower
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Flying Colours (Horatio Hornblower Adventure)
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Himmel och skog
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Horatio Hornblower 1 - 11
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Horatio Hornblower's Temptation & The Last Encounter
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Hornblower #11 During Crisis
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Hornblower andthe Atropos
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Hornblower - Der Kapitän
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Hornblower in the West Indies (Horatio Hornblower Adventures)
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Hornblower i ostersjon
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Hornblower of the West Indies
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Hornblower and the Happy Return
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Hornblower and the Hotspur (Hornblower Saga, No 3)
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Hornblower & the Hotspur (Hornblower Series, No. 3)
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Hornblower Yel Hotspur
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Kapteinen fra Connecticut
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Kommandorkaptein Hornblower
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La Reina de Africa / African Queen (Seix Barral)
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LA Reina De Africa/the African Queen
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Leutnant Hornblower. Roman
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Poo-Poo and the dragons
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Sagaen om et skip
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Theh appy return
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Victor Emmanuel 2 and the union of Italy
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The wonderful week
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Selected Works of C. S. Forester: Captain Hornblower.
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Fähnrich zur See Hornblower / Leutnant Hornblower. Zwei Romane
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Josephine: Napoleon's empress
1 edition - first published in 1925
C. S. Forester
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