Flying Colours, Paperback

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Forced to surrender his ship, the Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower now bides his time as a prisoner in a French fortress. Within days he and his first lieutenant, Bush, who was crippled in the last fight, are to be taken to Paris to be tried on trumped-up charges of violating the laws of war, and most probably executed as part of Napoleon's attempt to rally the warweary empire behind him. Even if Hornblower escapes this fate and somehow finds his way back to England, he will face court-martial for his surrender of a British ship. As fears for his life and his reputation compete in his mind with worries about his pregnant wife and his possibly widowed lover, the indomitable captain imetierntly awaits the chance to make his next move.

Despre autor

C. S. Forester

romancier britanic · 1899–1966

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, cunoscut sub pseudonimul Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, a fost un romancier englez care a scris povestiri cu bătălii navale, cea mai notabilă fiind seria de 12 cărți despre căpitanul britanic Horatio Hornblower, serie care descrie aventurile unui ofițer din Marina Regală Britanică în timpul Războaielor Napoleoniene.