Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-19662006
It is 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, H...