Commodore Hornblower
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1945. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Fine / Near Fine. Item #007242
Orig. turquoise cloth. 384 pp. Minor rubbing and bumping to spine ends, else fine. Dust jacket lightly bumped at extremities. Horatio Hornblower is as real to most readers as Nelson or Nimitz. In this, the fourth separate tale about this redoubtable seaman, he retuns to sea with the rank of Commodore in command of a small but powerful squadron on a mission of such delicacy that the fate of Europe hangs on the outcome. Napoleon stands against both Russia and Sweden and it is Hornblower's task to see that these countries maintain their shaky friendship with Britain. The appearance in the Baltic of Hornblower's squadron lights a fuse which sets off a series of repercussions from Sweden to Napoleon's headquarters to Czar Alexander's palace.
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