Horatio Hornblower was the central character in C.S. Forester's celebrated series of 12 novels set in the age of fighting sail when Britannia ruled the waves. I... » 

Horatio Hornblower was the central character in C.S. Forester's celebrated series of 12 novels set in the age of fighting sail when Britannia ruled the waves. In this fictional biography of Hornblower, Cecil Northcote Parkinson chronicles the rise to eminence of a young Royal Navy officer. «