Books - Review

Hornblower and the Atropos, The Happy Return, and A Ship of the Line. Nelson's funeral, El Supremo in S. America, and attacks on the Spanish coast respectively.

Jolly good.

Hornblower joins the Renown as junior lieutenant under crazy Captain Sawyer, but when Sawyer conveniently falls down the hatch and is rendered unfit for command Hornblower gets his chance to show how much cleverer than all the other lieutenants he is.

Jolly good, and, interestingly, written from Bush's perspective rather than Hornblower's.

Hornblower messes about in the Baltic with his bomb ketches etc., and, rather improbably, gets to show Clausewitz a thing or two at Riga about how to defend a siege.

Jolly good fun except when poor old Mound dies.Re-read 21 Sept 2009.