Hornblower and the "Hotspur"

By C. S. Forester

Subjects: Peninsular war, 1807-1814, fiction, Horatio Hornblower (Fictitious character), Hornblower, horatio (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, Great britain, fiction

Description: April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower -- who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy -- commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed and unhappy temperament" -- matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonaparte's cannonballs. - Back cover.