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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-30 - Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
"In Jack Aubrey Commands, Brian Lavery relates the naval fiction of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester to the real world inhabited by famous Royal Navy heroes s
Language: en
Pages: 198
Pages: 198
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Anova Books
No fiction writer of the modern period has captured the world of wooden walls, broadsides and the press gang in quite the same way as the late Patrick O'Brian.
Language: en
Pages: 200
Pages: 200
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
In this new work, respected naval historian Lavery explores the historical framework of the O'Brian novels by examining the facts behind the grand narrative and
Language: en
Pages: 356
Pages: 356
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Stephen Maturin brings Captain Jack Aubrey secret orders to lead an expedition against the French islands of Mauritius and La Reunion, but the conduct of two of
Language: en
Pages: 348
Pages: 348
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-05-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
"Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it." —Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Press In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval of