C. S Forester
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 1
Pub. Date
[1998?], c1950
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 15
Description
The inauspicious beginnings of Midshipman Hornblower and his spectacular rise to Lieutenant are described in this novel of adventure on the high seas
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 10
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 2
Pub. Date
[1980]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
Description
The second novel in the Hornblower saga finds Hornblower emerging from his apprenticeship as midshipman to assume the responsibilities that await him as a lieutenant.
25) Greyhound
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the...
26) Flying Colours
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 7
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
A prisoner of the French after he was forced to surrender his ship, Captain Horatio Hornblower faces a trial by his captor, if he can escape, a court-martial back in England.
33) Greyhound
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Based up on the novel "The Good Shepherd" by C.S. Forester. "Several months after the U.S. entry into World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy commander must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by a German submarine wolf pack. -- Container.
MPAA rating PG-13.
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Follows the adventures of British Naval hero Horatio Hornblower as he climbs from midshipman to commander during the Napoleonic Wars.
Joining the British Royal Navy at the outset of the Napoleonic Wars, the enterprising Horatio Hornblower rises quickly from raw recruit to seasoned sailor, charting a course from the West Indies to the coast of Africa in the name of the Crown. Along the way he encounters roiling sea battles, mutiny, plague, and love,...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Casablanca: Rick Blaine, an American expatriate with a shady past, runs the very popular night-spot, Rick's Caf©♭ Am©♭ricain in Casablanca, French Morocco. Everybody comes to Rick's--gamblers, smugglers, spies, counter-spies, refugees, and more. Rick and his best friend Sam, the club's piano player, keep out of politics and ignore the war. Rick's friend Captain Renault, prefect of the Vichy police, agrees with Rick. But the war will not leave...
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Midshipman Horatio Hornblower joins the British fleet just as the French Revolution is about to change European history. But he has worries closer to home as he incurs the wrath of a shipmate named Simpson, a bully who everyone else avoids and placates. Events lead to a duel, but one of Hornblower's mates takes his place and is killed. At war with France, Hornblower and Simpson are assigned different ships, but are reunited when Simpson's ship is...
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