When Priscilla Harradine travels back to England accompanied by the rather dull Major Sands, she has no cause to expect her journey will be anything other than uneventful. But also on board the Centaur is Charles de Bernis - a Read more
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
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!
