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As Admiral Bolitho heads to the Indian Ocean, "for the first time Bolitho's thoughts are not of glory but his own--and the Navy's--past. Both Nelson and Collingwood died in their country's service. For the Navy's newest Admiral, is there life beyond the sea itself?"--cover.

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. After six months of repairs his ship is ready to fight again, but her company is mostly raw and untrained. Unfortunately, Bolitho finds himself under a commodore who is no match for the French admiral, Lequiller, whose powerful squadron uses guile and ruthless determination to elude him and vanish into the Atlantic. Hyperion, as part of a small British force, gives chase, the desperate voyage taking them from the Bay of Biscay's squall to the heat of the Caribbean - and for each mile sailed and every battle fought Bolitho finds himself being forced into the ever more demanding role of strategist and squadron commander.

The exciting sequel to the previous Bolitho adventure — The Only Victor — it is March 1808 as Napoleon holds Portugal and threatens his old ally Spain. Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho is dispatched once more to the Cape of Good Hope to establish a permanent naval force there.

March 1814Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England from several months' rigorous patrolling off the North American coast.

Alexander Kent is the pseudonym of Douglas Reeman, a contemporary British writer. Reeman joined the British Navy at 16 and served on destroyers and small crafts during World War II, eventually rising to lieutenant. He later worked as a London detective and has served as a script advisor for television and film. He travels extensively, scouting locations for his books. Drawing on his extensive experience and research, Alexander Kent writes with engaging authenticity. His best-selling Richard Bolitho Novels (numbering 23 volumes) have achieved world-wide sales of over 20 million copies and have been translated into nearly two dozen languages.

HISTORICAL FICTION. Colours Aloft!, the sixteenth Richard Bolitho novel, bears all the hallmarks of its best-selling predecessors. September 1803 Vice-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.

Copenhagen, 1800, and after seven years of cruel war against France, Britain's long-standing ally, Denmark, suddenly poses a threat. The scene of battle shifts abruptly from Europe to the Baltic where Rear-Admiral Richard Bolitho is thrown immediately into a fierce struggle with the enemy.

It is 1784, and His Majesty's frigate "Undine" sets sail from Spithead for India. Europe may be at peace, but in colonial waters the promises of statesmen count for little and the bloody struggle for supremacy goes on. Richard Bolitho undertakes a task that would be better handled by a squadron.

Bolitho and the crew of the Hyperion are trapped by the French near a dry Mediterranean island. The great ship-of-the line’s battered hull begins to groan as her sails snap in the hot wind.

The 22nd novel in the Bolitho series. It is March 1811, and Admiral Richard Bolitho is once again summoned to London from Cornwall. In defence of an Empire, the Admiralty must quell the unrest in America or face war with those who were once friends.

Onward, a new 38-gun frigate whose first mission is not war but diplomacy, as consort to the French frigate Nautilus. It is only when Nautilus becomes a sacrificial offering on the altar of empire that every man discovers the brotherhood of the sea is more powerful than the bitter memories of an... číst celé

The novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his best friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London. One day, without warning, Sarah had broken off the relationship. It seemed impossible that there could be a rival for her heart.

But all efforts of the British anti-slavery patrols to curb a flourishing trade in human life are hampered by unsuitable ships, by the indifference of a government more concerned with old enemies made distrustful allies, and by the continuing belligerence of the Dey of Algiers, which threatens to ignite a full-scale war.

The tenth Richard Bolitho novel in Alexander Kent's spectacularly successful series deals with Bolitho's life as a young lieutenant aboard the Trojan, an eighty-gun ship of the line.

The year is 1774 and Bolitho is now a newly appointed third lieutenant joining the 28-gun frigate Destiny at Plymouth. It is a far step from midshipman's berth to wardroom - and at a time when most of the fleet is laid up Bolitho is considered fortunate. Bolitho's promotion is tinged by personal sadness, but his new captain soon points out that Bolitho's loyalty is to him, the ship and His Britannic Majesty - in that order. Despatched on a secret mission far south to Rio and then to the Caribbean, Destiny and her company face the hazards of conspiracy, treason and piracy - and, as the little ship sails on, Bolitho has to learn amid broadside battles at sea and the clash of swords in hand-to-hand actions how to accept his new responsibilities as a King's officer.

"H.M.S. Phalarope" is ordered to the Caribbean but the most deadly enemy is already aboard her. "January 1782, Portsmouth": His Britannic Majesty's frigate "Phalarope" is ordered to the assistance of the hard-pressed squadrons in the Carribean. Aboard is her new commander -- Richard Bolitho. To all appearances the "Phalarope" is everything a young captain could wish for. But beneath the surface she is a deeply unhappy ship -- her wardroom torn by petty greed and ambition, her deckhands driven to near-mutiny by senseless ill-treatment... "From the Paperback edition."

Success to the Brave is the fifteenth Richard Bolitho story and chronologically it follows the events covered by A Tradition of Victory. In the spring of 1802 Richard Bolitho is summoned to the Admiralty in London and given his orders for a difficult and, to him, distasteful task. Even an advanced promotion to vice-admiral to make him one of the youngest ever appointed does not compensate for his sudden and thankless mission. Bolitho and his wife are expecting their first child, and for once he is loath to quit the land for the demands of duty. The Peace of Amiens, signed a few weeks earlier, is already showing signs of strain as the old enemies wrangle over the return of colonial possessions won and lost during the war. In the little sixty-four-gun Achates Bolitho sails West for Boston, and thence to the Caribbean where he must hand over the island of San Felipe to the French. Bolitho discovers that to be a man of diplomacy is not enough, and as threat and counter-threat weave a web of intrigue around his lonely command he balances success against the danger to the men who must follow him even to the cannon's mouth.

Two novels in one volume: the first, Richard Bolitho - Midshipman begins in Portsmouth in October 1772, where young Richard Bolitho is waiting to join the Gorgon; the second, Midshipman Bolitho and the 'Avenger', finds Bolitho aboard his brother's cutter at Falmouth in the winter of 1773.

It is 1792, over ten years after Britain's defeat by the American colonies, and the bitter humiliation still sticks in the Admiralty's craw. Now brutal smugglers, many of them naval deserters, occupy the Channel, plying their trade between England and France. Richard Bolitho's mission: to send three small cutters to fight the treacherous raiders off the coast of Kent. But they are not the only threat facing Bolitho. For across the Channel, revolution grips France, where the guillotine is both an instrument of political revenge and a weapon of hate and envy. As war with France looms, Bolitho soon finds himself and his three small ships facing more enemies than friends....

The collection features three novellas that chronicle Richard Bolitho's formative years in the Royal Navy, including the latest installment, "Band of Brothers." Renowned for vivid depictions of ships at sea and intense 18th-century naval battles, the stories delve into the challenges of leadership amid the chaos of warfare. This omnibus serves as an engaging introduction to the Richard Bolitho series, replacing the previous starting point, "Midshipman Bolitho."

Pirates and savage South Sea Islanders are nothing compared to the greatest of all threats. "October 1789, New South Wales": Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate "Tempest," She is one of His Majesty's ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho, who hopes to be ordered home to England. Instead he is despatched on a mission to the islands of the Great South Sea, where he must face hazards of fickle winds, pirates and savage islanders. But he is menaced by deeper fears; the men of the Bounty have mutinied in these same waters; and from distant Europe comes news of a revolution in France... "From the Paperback edition."

Antigua 1817Every harbour and estuary is filled with ghostly ships, the famous and the legendary now redundant in the aftermath of the war. In this uneasy peace, Adam Bolitho is fortunate to be offered the seventy-four gun Athena, and as flag captain to Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Bethune once more follows his destiny to the Caribbean.

After eight years of war between Britain and France there is at last a rumour of peace. But the old enemies are well aware that any settlement will be only a breathing space in which to recover from their terrible losses. To obtain the best terms the French muster a show of strength from Biscay to the Channel ports. This is the 14th Bolitho novel.

FEBRUARY 1806 The frigate carrying Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho drops anchor off the shores of southern Africa. It is only four months since the resounding victory over the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at Trafalgar, and the death of England's greatest naval hero. Bolitho's instructions are to assist in hastening the campaign in Africa, where an expeditionary force is attempting to recapture Cape Town from the Dutch. Outside Europe few have yet heard of the battle of Trafalgar, and Bolitho's news is met with both optimism and disappointment as he reminds the senior officers that, despite the victory, Napolean's defeat is by no means assured. The men who follow Bolitho's flag into battle are to discover, not for the first time, that death is the only victor.

In the spring of 1797 Richard Bolitho brings the 100-gun IEuryalus/I home to Falmouth to be flagship of the hastily formed squadron which has been chosen to make the first British re-entry to the Mediterranean for nearly a year. As flag captain, Bolitho is made to contend with the unyielding attitudes of his new admiral, as well as the devious requirements of the squadron's civilian advisor. England is still stunned by the naval mutiny at Spithead, in which Bolitho's admiral was personally involved, and as the squadron sets sail the air is already alive with rumour of an even greater uprising in the ships at the Nore. Only when the squadron is drawn to a bloody embrace with the enemy does the admiral see the strength in Bolitho's trust and care for his men - but by then it is almost too late for any of them.

A historical maritime thriller featuring Vice-Admiral Richard Bolitho who is ordered by the king to plan and execute a daring raid on the Spanish Main. From the author of COLOURS ALOFT! and CROSS OF ST GEORGE.

Adam Bolitho, captain of the ship Unrivalled, fells he is alone in the dawning of the new age of the Royal Navy.

A troubled peace with France means that in the harbours and estuaries around England, the royal fleet has been left to rot. Even a frigate captain as famous as Richard Bolitho is forced to swallow his pride and visit the Admiralty daily to plead for a ship. As the clouds of war begin to rise once more over the Channel, he has no choice but to accept an appointment to the Nore. With his small flotilla of three topsail cutters Bolitho sets out to search the coast for seamen who have fled the harsh discipline of His Majesty's Navy for the more tempting rewards of smuggling. But the 'Brotherhood' he comes up against are brutal and dangerous with a secret, sinister trade in human misery. Treason is never far distant and murder commonplace. So when a King's ransom is in peril and Bolitho is ordered to proceed 'with all despatch' to recover it he will need all the loyalty and courage of his three gallant cutters if he is to fulfil his mission.

The 26th, and final, Bolitho novel in this phenomenally successful and well-loved series.In this, the long-awaited conclusion of Alexander Kent’s midshipman trilogy, the new year of 1774 seems to offer Richard Bolitho and his friend Martyn Dancer the culmination of a dream. Both have been recommended for promotion, although they have not yet gained the coveted lieutenant’s commission. But a routine passage from Plymouth to Guernsey in an untried schooner becomes, for Bolitho, a passage from midshipman to King’s officer, tempering the promise of the future with the bitter price of maturity.From the Hardcover edition.

"Midshipman Bolitho's ship, the Gorgon, is laid up in Falmouth for refitting, and the young sailor- now seventeen- looks forward to a peaceful Christmas with his family. But Cornwall is now a violent place. Smuggling is rife, witchcraft abounds, and ugly rumours lead to the murder of a revenue officer."

Filled with high-seas intrigue and sharp tensions, this nautical novel takes an intense voyage into the heart of Napoleonic-era Africa. The year is 1819 and Captain Adam Bolitho has been sent on an urgent but risky mission to make a fast passage from Plymouth to Freetown, West Africa, with secret orders for the senior officer stationed there. Due to the slave trade being declared illegal, ships in every harbor are waiting to be scrapped and officers have been cut loose without hope of future commands, thus Adam soon finds himself the object of envy and jealousy. In Africa he discovers unexpected allies and faces an enemy far more powerful and ruthless than any he has known before.

February 1813 and Sir Richard Bolitho returns to Halifax to pursue a war he cannot win.

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1809 bricht Vizeadmiral Bolitho nach Südafrika auf, um die wichtigen Goldlieferungen aus Indien vor dem Zugriff der Franzosen und Amerikaner zu sichern. (Forts. von: Das letzte Riff).

'Der Friedensschluß von Amiens hat die beiden Erzfeinde England und Frankreich keineswegs versöhnt. Vizeadmiral Richard Bolitho, der auf seinem leichten Linienschiffm it Kurs auf die Karibik unterwegs ist, merkt schnell, dass er in einen unerklärten Krieg segelt. Bereits im Atlantik wird die Achates von einem mysteriösen Gegner beschossen, und auch die von ihm vorausgeschickte Fregatte Sparrowhawk verschwindet spurlos mit 200 Mann an Bord. Doch die größte seemännische Herausforderung erwartet ihn erst noch bei Erreichen der Insel San Felipe ...

Unabh. Forts. von: Klar Schiff zum Gefecht. - Kapitän Bolitho wird nach harten Patrouillendiensten vor der nordamerikanischen Ostküste Zeuge der Entscheidungsschlacht in der Chesapaeke Bay (1781) zwischen den Engländern und den mit den USA verbündeten Franzosen.

Indochina, 1941: Nach der deutschen Besetzung Frankreichs und dessen Kapitulation ist in den asiatischen Gewässern nach wie vor das mächtigste U-Boot der Welt stationiert, die französische Soufrière. Obwohl zwischen England und Japan noch Frieden herrscht, wollen die Briten mit aller Macht verhindern, dass dieses Boot unter Umständen den Japanern in die Hände fällt. Commander Robert Ainslie, ein mit allen Wassern gewaschener U-Boot-Führer der Royal Navy, wird mit diesem heiklen wie riskanten Auftrag betraut. Ein tollkühnes Prisenunternehmen beginnt.

Februar 1943: Captain Giles Browning weiß, was er seinem U-Boot-Ass zumutet, das soeben erst mit der Tristram in den Heimathafen zurückgekehrt ist. Nach vierzehn Monaten im ununterbrochenen Einsatz sind Commander Marshall und seine Besatzung am Ende ihrer Kräfte. Doch sie müssen sofort wieder los, denn ein deutsches U-Boot ist den Briten in die Hände gefallen und soll umgehend zur Vorbereitung der alliierten Invasion Siziliens eingesetzt werden. Eine der ungewöhnlichsten Operationen der britischen Marine beginnt …

It is December 1917, Germany opens the final, bitter round of the war with a new and deadly weapon in the struggle for the seas -- the Vulcan sails from Kiel Harbour. To all appearances she is a harmless merchant vessel. But her peaceful lines conceal a merciless firepower; guns, mines and torpedoes that can be brought into play instantly. The Vulcan is a commerce raider. And under crack commander Felix von Steiger her mission is to bring chaos to the seaways.

Dezember 1773: Nach vierzehn strapaziösen Monaten auf See an Bord der Gorgon kehrt Midshipman Richard Bolitho zurück nach England. Während das Linienschiff in Plymouth im Dock zur dringend notwendigen Überholung liegt, will er Weihnachten bei seinen Eltern in Falmouth verbringen. Doch daraus wird nichts, denn an der Küste Cornwalls treiben übelste Strandräuber, die gezielt Schiffsstrandungen herbeiführen, ihr Unwesen. Für Richard Bolitho heißt es, deren tödlichem Spuk ein Ende zu setzen…

Es sind Freiwillige, die in den Spezialeinheiten für ihre Aufgaben auf den Minenlegern der Royal Navy ausgebildet werden: zu allem entschlossene Männer, die noch etwas zu beweisen oder nichts mehr zu verlieren haben. Monat für Monat wird die Technik ihrer todbringenden stählernen Boten ausgefeilter und tückischer und die Konfrontation mit Tod und Untergang der auf rauer See Kämpfenden gönnt weder Männern noch Schiffen eine Atempause. Auch nicht Sub- Lieutenant Michael Lincoln, der noch als Held bejubelt wird, während er nichts mehr fürchtet als seine Entlarvung als Feigling ?

Three generations of Blackwoods have served the Royal Marines with distinction. Now it is the turn of young Jonathan Blackwood to take up arms. In 1915, he fights from the sea, supported by the Royal Navy in the battlefields of the Dardanelles and Gallipoli, helpless to save either himself or his men. Two years later in Flandrs, Blackwood finds that Hell can get worse as he and his men fight on the horrific Western Front

Die U-Boot-Jäger: Der von hartem Realismus getragene Seekriegsroman schildert die Schlacht zwischen britischen Zerstörern und deutschen U-Booten im Atlantik von 1942 bis 1944. Operation Monsun: Südostasien 1943: Die britische Marine hat auf Ceylon eine Spezialeinheit stationiert, die mit Mini-U-Booten japanische und deutsche Marinestützpunkte angreifen. - Realitätsnaher, moderner Seekriegsroman.

1789 – Auf Befehl des Gouverneurs der jungen britischen Kolonie Neusüdwales läuft Kapitän Richard Bolitho mit seiner Fregatte Tempest in den Südpazifik aus. Ganz auf sich allein gestellt, soll er mit seinem Schiff in Polynesien patrouillieren und die bedrohten Versorgungsrouten zwischen den einsamen Handelsposten sichern. Doch in dem scheinbaren Inselparadies grassieren Fieberseuchen, unter der Mannschaft kommt es zu einer Meuterei, und von Piraten aufgewiegelte Eingeborene bilden eine weitere Bedrohung. Richard Bolitho ist in jeder Hinsicht gefordert …

At last the British agreed to send them a small flotilla of motor torpedo boats under the command of John Devane. Devane had been in the Navy since the outbreak of war. Given command t short notice, Devane soon learned that, even against the vast and raging background of the Eastern Front, war could still be a personal duel between individuals.

Alternate cover edition here.In 1941, when she was turned into an armed merchant cruiser, the S. S. Benbencula was already old. Yet even she was needed to protect the vital Atlantic sea lanes. Commander Lindsay, her new captain, had to work desperately to mould the ship's company — raw recruits and old timers — into a fighting force. And better than anyone, Lindsay knew this could be his last command, his last chance.

October 1772, Portsmouth. And sixteen-year-old Richard Bolitho waits to join the Gorgon ordered to sail to the west coast of Africa and to destroy those who challenge the King's Navy. For Bolitho, and for many of the crew, it is a severe and testing initiation into the game of seamanship.

1782: In höchster Not wird die britische Fregatte 'Phalarope' unter ihrem neuen Kommandanten Richard Bolitho in die Karibik befohlen, um den bedrängten Engländern vor Antigua zu Hilfe zu kommen. Doch das Schiff genießt einen schlechten Die Besatzung hat gemeutert, die Offiziere meiden den Kampf und Bolitho erlebt seine bitterste Nacht, als er von seinem eigenen Bruder gefangen genommen wird. Erst in der historischen Seeschlacht bei den Saintes-Inseln wendet sich das Blatt ...

It is 1943, and Captain Mike Blackwood, Royal Marine Commando, must find within himself qualities of leadership which will inspire those Royal Marines who are once again the first to land, and among the first to die on the Sicilian beaches.

Kiel im Frühjahr und Sommer 1945: Der Kommandant eines kleinen britischen Kanonenbootes gerät durch seine menschliche Haltung zwischen die politischen Fronten.

Auf dem Meeresgrund vor dem besetzten Norwegen lauert XE 16, eines der geheimsten Schiffe der britischen Kriegsmarine, mit gewaltigen Sprengladungen an den Außenseiten des Rumpfes. Ganze 16 Meter lang, mit nur vier Mann Besatzung, könnte dieses Kleinst-U-Boot unter seinem jungen Kommandanten David Seaton dennoch den Ausgang des Zweiten Weltkrieges mit beeinflussen. Sein höchst gefahrvoller Auftrag lautet, den Aufbau einer deutschen Raketenbasis zu sabotieren. Ein spannender U-Boot-Roman aus der Grauzone zwischen Seekrieg und Partisanenkampf.

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