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(0)C. S Forester
Author
Series
(Cecil Scott),Hornblower volume 6-8
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
©1967.
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Castaways Pictures
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
Thrown together at the outset of World War I, the spinster sister of a British missionary and the derelict captain of the launch, The African Queen, determine to pilot the boat down an unchartered river in an effort to destroy a German gunboat which prevents invasion by British forces. Setting: German East Africa in 1914.
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[©1963]
Language
English
Description
English missionary's sister enlists aid of mechanic in blowing up German gunboat on African lake.
Firrst published in 1935, C.S. Forester's classic romantic adventure is a tale of opposites attracted. Allnut and Rose, a disreputable Cockney and an English spinster missionary, wend their way down a river in Central Africa in a rickety, asthmatic steam launch, and are gradually joined together in a mission of retaliation against the Germans. Fighting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Captain Horatio Hornblower takes his 22-gun sloop into the Mediterranean, where he and his crew search for sunken treasure, harass Napoleon's fleet, and face off against a Spanish frigate.
Author
Series
(Cecil Scott),Hornblower volume 9
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
1945.
Language
English
Description
Hornblower leads a squadron in the Baltic trying to protect trade and stop Napoleon's advance.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
1939.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Forced to surrender his ship, the Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower now bides his time as a prisoner awaiting transport to Paris and a trial on trumped up charges. After escaping with his first lieutenant Bush, and his coxswain Brown, they find refuge in France. Later, the three again make their way down the Loire river and upon reaching the sea find a means to escape to England where Hornblower's honors and income...
Author
Series
Publisher
Back Bay Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.
11) Ship of the line
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1938.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Captain Hornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line and single-handedly must wage war against four French ships.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth 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
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
16) Greyhound
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel "The Good Shepherd" by C.S. Forester, this is the thrilling story of the leader of an Allied convoy crossing the North Atlantic in 1942 as he faces relentless attack by a Nazi submarine wolf pack. The leader of the convoy's destroyer screen is a US Navy commander making his first Atlantic crossing.
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Joining the British Royal Navy at the outset of the Napoleonic Wars, the enterprising Horatio Hornblower rises quickly from raw recruit to seasoned sailor, charting a course from the West Indies to the coast of Africa in the name of the Crown. Along the way he encounters roiling sea battles, mutiny, plague, and love, but always proves himself equal to the task.