No one has been so well equipped as C. S. Forester to dramatize the sea battles of the War of 1812, to characterize the heroes more skillfully, or to comprehend more shrewdly the world unrest that made it possible for Read more
The beginning of the sweeping Aubrey-Maturin series. "The best sea story I have ever read."—Sir Francis Chichester This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon Read more
Capt. Miles is an outstanding character even among the many notable characters featured in nautical yarns. His hatred for the English is only to be matched by his detestation of the Irish and his devotion to the British Empire. But when his ship the William and Mary is sunk by a U-boat, this anti-English, anti-Irish Irishman who hails from Belfast is willing to bury contention with his neighbors in order to get back at the Hun. a thrilling World War I story!
