C. S. Forester
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1966
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1985], ©1966
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua - a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS "Lydia", to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landoner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line "Natividad" or face court-martial....
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
On the threshold of securing his first post as captain, Hornblower finds himself forced by the exigencies of war to fight alongside a man whom he has unintentionally helped to court-martial. And for the first time Hornblower assents to engaging in espionage in his efforts to bring victory and glory to England in the Napoleonic Wars. This extant fragment of Forester's final Hornblower novel is followed by the author's notes regarding the novel's conclusion....
Publisher
Distributed by NewVideo
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Following his rapid rise through the ranks of the King's Navy, in 1802, Hornblower is assigned to the HMS Renown which is sailing to the West Indies to subdue a pirate fleet. Her brutal captain is rapidly going insane forcing Hornblower to take action that threatens not only his naval career but his life as well.
Publisher
Distributed by NewVideo
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Following his rapid rise through the ranks of the King's Navy, in 1802, Hornblower is assigned to the HMS Renown which is sailing to the West Indies to subdue a pirate fleet. Her brutal captain is rapidly going insane forcing Hornblower to take action that threatens not only his naval career but his life as well.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Sensational film about the Spanish War of Independence (1810). After Napoleon's invasion of Spain, a group of guerillas (led by Frank Sinatra) attempt to transport what was in those days the biggest cannon in the world, across Spain to Avila, where they intend to counterattack against the French army headquartered there. But a British Navy captain (Cary Grant) is trying to locate the cannon for the British to use against Napoleon. Adding romance to...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The timeless tale of two mismatched strangers joining forces in a common cause, and finding love along the way. The story chronicles the burgeoning romance between river rat Charlie Allnut and missionary Rose Sayer, as they reluctantly join forces to torpedo a German gunboat in war torn East Africa.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The Bismarck was the fabled German battleship of World War II. Traces the "life" of the Bismarck from its launching (courtesy of newsreel footage) through its many battles and narrow escapes, concluding with its far-from-inevitable sinking in the Spring of 1941. The story concentrates on the human element, specifically a British intelligence captain, who has lost his family in the London blitz and thus has a personal reason for seeing the Bismarck...
Publisher
[Distributed by] NewVideo
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
The epic saga of Horatio Hornblower, the legendary sea-faring, hero, comes to life in these films based on C.S. Forester's classic novels. Set against the bloody backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Hornblower charts a course for high adventure, following the raw recruit as he battles the French, evades capture, and rises through the ranks of the King's Navy.