Enemy in Sight

Informationen zum Autor Alexander Kent's great interest in the ships and men of the eighteenth century navy was aroused when he was still at school. Although he attended fleet reviews and explored modern warships and dockyards with his father, he found that the great days of square riggers and battles at close quarters captured his imagination. H.M.S. Victory , Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, was always high on his list of regular visits. He served in the Royal Navy as a young man, and saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic and other major theatres of war, but his first love of the great days of sail remained unshaken. Now firmly established as a leading writer of authentic sea stories, he was the author of twenty-eight acclaimed books featuring Richard Bolitho. Under his own name, Douglas Reeman, and in the course of a career spanning forty-five years, he wrote over thirty novels and two non-fiction books. He died in January 2017. Klappentext As 1794 draws to a close Richard Bolitho, commanding the old seventy-four-gun ship of the line Hyperion, leaves Plymouth to join a squadron blockading the rising power of Revolutionary France. Zusammenfassung As 1794 draws to a close Richard Bolitho, commanding the old seventy-four-gun ship of the line Hyperion, leaves Plymouth to join a squadron blockading the rising power of Revolutionary France.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Kent
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.01.2006
• EAN: 9780099493921
• ISBN: 978-0-09-949392-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 129 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Richard Bolitho; Richard Bolitho
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Sea stories, Modern and contemporary fiction, War, combat and military adventure fiction, c 1789 to c 1799 (French Revolutionary period), Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)