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A Ship of the Line C.S. Forester 9781405936910
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the SeaMay, 1810 - and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line . . .Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is 'the... -
Payment Deferred by C.S. Forester 9780241654170
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesThere is nothing more dangerous than a desperate manBank clerk William Marble is facing financial ruin - until a visit from a wealthy young... -
Lieutenant Hornblower C.S. Forester 9781405928304
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Second Horatio Hornblower Tale of the SeaThe nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower is ordered to the Caribbean and dangerous waters.New Lieutenant... -
Hornblower in the West Indies C.S. Forester 9781405936958
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea1815, the Napoleonic Wars are over. Yet peace continues to elude Horatio Hornblower overseas . . .As an admiral struggling to impose order in the chaotic aftermath... -
The Good Shepherd: Now the major motion picture Greyhound starring Tom Hanks by C.S. Forester
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.99THE GRIPPING NAVAL THRILLER, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING TOM HANKS _______ 1942. America enters the war and an untested officer receives his first wartime command . . . Ploughing through icy,... -
Greyhound: Discover the gripping naval thriller behind the major motion picture starring Tom Hanks by C.S. Forester
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKSDiscover the acclaimed wartime classic from C. S. Forester - originally published as The Good Shepherd'Unbelievably good' James Holland, bestselling author of... -
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower: A Biography of C.S. Forester's Famous Naval Hero by C. Northcote Parkinson 9781493084098
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.63Many know of Horatio Hornblower's exploits during the Napoleonic Wars through the novels of C.S. Forester, but how many know the true Hornblower - the man who rose from midshipman to admiral of the... -
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower: A Biography of C.S. Forester's Famous Naval Hero by C. Northcote Parkinson 9781590130650
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.58Many know of Horatio Hornblower's exploits during the Napoleonic Wars through the novels of C.S. Forester, but how many know the true Hornblower-the man who rose from Midshipman to Admiral of the... -
Cochrane by Donald Thomas
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio HornblowerThe life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of... -
The Horns of the Buffalo by John Wilcox
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In 1879 the redcoats of the British Army are universally regarded as the finest fighting force in the world. Among them is Lieutenant Simon Fonthill, dispatched to South Africa with much to prove:... -
The Guns of El Kebir by John Wilcox 9780755327218 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.991882. Lieutenant General Sir Garnet Wolseley is under pressure. News of an uprising against the British powers in Egypt has reached London, and he must react decisively and forcefully. But there is... -
The Diamond Frontier John Wilcox 9780755309870
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02It's 1880, and the atmosphere is explosive in the South African province of the Transvaal. The discovery of diamonds has bred greed and violence, while British forces contend with murderous bePedi... -
The Road To Kandahar by John Wilcox
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The year is 1879, and Captain Simon Fonthill is ready for another challenge. Having survived the Zulu onslaught at Rorke's Drift, he is sent to the North-West Frontier - India's border with... -
Last Stand At Majuba Hill by John Wilcox
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02It is 1881, and General George Pomeroy-Colley, commander of the British forces in Natal, is planning to stamp out a rebellion. He is convinced the Transvaal Boers can pose no serious threat, but he... -
Ramage & the Saracens by Dudley Pope 9781590130230
Booksplease Price: £16.99Barbary Coast pirates-the Saraceni-are capturing slaves and terrorizing fishing villages along the coast of Sicily. Ramage and his crew are sent to track them down before they can devastate another... -
The Shangani Patrol John Wilcox 9780755345625
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02This gripping new military adventure featuring Simon Fonthill brilliantly depicts one of the last and most tragic of all battles in the 'Scramble for Africa'. 1893. In the African Cape, recovering... -
The Ship by C. S. Forester
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47Step aboard C.S. Forester's classic seafaring tale from the author of The Good Shepherd, now a major-motion picture starring Tom Hanks 'A joyous creation, a perfection in words. Young Hornblower is,... -
Ramage's Trial by Dudley Pope 9781590130117
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.96Captain Lord Ramage and the Calypso return from Devil's Island, but Ramage's new wife Sarah is missing. The captain would like nothing better than to sail home immediately, but instead he is ordered... -
True Soldier Gentlemen Adrian Goldsworthy 9780753828366
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.06'[A] Jane Austen-meets-Bernard Cornwell novel' Daily MailRaw recruits march under the summer sun. But on distant shores a terrible event is about to sing its siren's song to the true soldier... -
A River in Borneo: A Tale of the East Indies by Richard Woodman 9781493075164
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92It is the summer of 1964 during the Far Eastern war euphemistically called 'Confrontation'. A British Royal Marine patrol has orders to penetrate Indonesian Borneo to locate a river thought by Allied... -
The African Queen C. S. Forester 9780753820797
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A classic tale of love and adventure from the author of the Captain Hornblower series. The film adaptation, which starred Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, became one of the most popular films... -
Admiral Hornblower: Flying Colours, The Commodore, Lord Hornblower, Hornblower in the West Indies by C. S. Forester
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Step into C.S. Forester's classic seafaring tales about Horatio Hornblower from the author of The Good Shepherd, now a major-motion picture starring Tom Hanks'A joyous creation, a perfection in words... -
Hornblower and the Atropos by C. S. Forester 9781405936897
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea.1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession . . .After near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first... -
A River in Borneo: A Tale of the East Indies by Captain Richard Woodman
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493061921Author Richard WoodmanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint McBooks PressPublisher Globe... -
Cochrane the Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane, 1775-1860 by David Cordingly 9780747585459 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £3.93Patrick O' Brian, C.S. Forester and Captain Marryat all based their literary heroes on Thomas Cochrane, but Cochrane's exploits were far more daring and exciting than those of his fictional... -
Cochrane the Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane, 1775-1860 by David Cordingly 9780747585459
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97Patrick O' Brian, C.S. Forester and Captain Marryat all based their literary heroes on Thomas Cochrane, but Cochrane's exploits were far more daring and exciting than those of his fictional... -
Ramage's Mutiny by Dudley Pope 9780935526905
Booksplease Price: £15.66The vicious mutineers aboard the British ship Jocasta had surrendered their vessel to Spain. Sailing aboard the frigate Calypso, Captain Lord Ramage receives Admiralty orders to recover her by any... -
The Privateersman by Captain Frederick Marryat 9780935526691
Booksplease Price: £14.06Privateers were essentially freelance ships, sanctioned during wartime to sail and do battle on behalf of adversary governments, and this tale follows Alexander Musgrave, a... -
Ramage & the Drumbeat by Dudley Pope 9780935526776
Booksplease Price: £16.28The lieutenant is ordered to proceed to Gibraltar "with all possible despatch" aboard His Majesty's ship Kathleen, to support Lord Nelson in a battle with the Spanish off Cape Trafalgar.About the... -
Ramage's Devil by Dudley Pope 9781590130100
Booksplease Price: £17.04Captain Lord Ramage's honeymoon in France is interrupted by a sudden end to the Peace of Amiens. Finding themselves on unfriendly soil just hours before hostilities commence, Ramage and his bride... -
Ramage's Signal by Dudley Pope 9781590130087
Booksplease Price: £15.66The Calypso and her captain, Lord Nicholas Ramage, venture further into the French-dominated waters of the Mediterranean on an Admiralty mission to sink, burn, and destroy. Aiming to confuse and... -
Cross of St George by Alexander Kent 9780935526929
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.88February 1813: As American privateers pick off British and Canadian ships in the wake of the War of 1812, Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to Halifax to defend Crown property. In the cold waters... -
Lord Hornblower by C. S. Forester
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea1813, and Horatio Hornblower is propelled toward the heart of the French Empire and his old enemy, Napoleon . . .Sir Horatio Hornblower has received strict and... -
Ramage by Dudley Pope 9780935526769
Booksplease Price: £15.22In a daring foray, under the very nose of the French Mediterranean fleet, Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage is to sail his tiny cutter close in to the Italian shore and rescue a party of stranded... -
Ramage & the Guillotine by Dudley Pope 9780935526813
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.95Across the English Channel, Napoleon has massed a great invasion flotilla. English forces, under Lord Nelson, are all but paralyzed-not knowing the size, strength, or time of the foreign onslaught... -
Ramage's Challenge by Dudley Pope 9781590130124
Booksplease Price: £16.43Admiralty spies are hunting for British officers and allies trapped on the mainland, among them Ramage's first love, Gianna, the Marchesa di Volterra. Ramage returns to the Tuscan coast, where... -
Ramage & the Renegades by Dudley Pope 9781590130094
Booksplease Price: £14.13Nelson's crews are standing down and Ramage is on leave when he receives secret Admiralty orders to inspect the small island of Trinidade off the coast of Brazil. Reaching the island, Ramage and the... -
Hazzard's Convoy: A gripping Napoleonic naval adventure by Jonathan Spencer 9781804361450
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89A deadly French ship stalks the waves. Hazzard must sink her at all costs…The eagerly anticipated fourth novel in the William John Hazzard series.Late 1799. Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power in a coup... -
The Ramage Touch by Dudley Pope 9781590130070
Booksplease Price: £13.11Post Captain Ramage is prowling the Tuscan coast and far from English aid when he encounters a daunting French invasion fleet. As the enemy gathers strength, Ramage must decide how to thwart its... -
Touch and Go by C. Northcote Parkinson 9781590130254
Booksplease Price: £15.47With his Royal Navy commission in hand, Richard Delancey is posted to Gibraltar to command the sloop Merlin for convoy protection in the Mediterranean. Overcoming problems with his crew, Delancey...