Commodore Hornblower
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 Hornblower has been ordered to do anything and everything possible, diplomatically and militarily, to protect the Baltic trade and to stop the spread of Napoleon's empire into Sweden and Russia. Though he has set sail a hero, one misstep may ruin his chances of ever becoming an admiral. Hostile armies, seductive Russian royalty, nautical perils such as ice-bound bays, assassins in the imperial palace - Hornblower must conquer all before he can return home to his beloved new wife and son, as his instructions are to sacrifice every man and ship under his command rather than surrender ground to Napoleon.
About the Hornblower Saga Series
Books in series order
- 1.Mr Midshipman Hornblower(1950)
- 2.Lieutenant Hornblower(1952)
- 3.Hornblower and the Hotspur(1962)
- 4.Hornblower and the Crisis(1967)
- 5.Hornblower and the Atropos(1953)
- 6.The Happy Return(1937)
- 7.A Ship of the Line(1938)
- 8.Flying Colours(1938)
- 9.Commodore Hornblower(1945)
- 10.Lord Hornblower(1946)
- 11.Hornblower in the West Indies(1957)
- +Hornblower Companion(1964)
Reading age: 12+ years
This series should be read in order.
As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of seasickness, 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 of Biscay and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves. In 1793, on the eve of the Napoleon Wars, the young Midshipman receives his first command...
Please Note: The Hornblower Saga is presented here in order of the narrative's chronology rather than the order in which the books were published.