Colours Aloft! - Richard Bolitho

Colours Aloft!, the sixteenth Richard Bolitho novel, bears all the hallmarks of its best-selling predecessors.September 1803Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds himself the new master of the Argonaute, a French flagship taken in battle. With the Peace of Armiens in ruins, he must leave the safety of Falmouth.What lies ahead is the grim reality of war at close quarters - where Bolitho who will be called upon to anticipate the overall intention of the French fleet. But the battle has also become a personal vendetta between himself and the French admiral who formerly sailed the Argonaute. Bolitho and his men are driven to a final rendezvous where no quarter is asked or given.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Kent
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2014
• EAN: 9780099591641
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959164-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Arrow Books; Richard Bolitho; Richard Bolitho
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Cornwall, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Sea Stories, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Sea stories, Modern and contemporary fiction, War, combat and military adventure fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)