Heart of Oak [Import] [Hardcover]

Alexander Kent (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 6, 2007

March 1818: Captain Adam Bolitho takes command of HMS Onward, grateful for employment at a time when other officers are languishing on the beach. He must accept both the honour and the challenge of his new command, in confronting old enemies and ambitious rivals to forge an uneasy alliance against corsairs and privateers in the Mediterranean.

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“The storytelling has an easy mastery; the prose is lean and muscular, without a word wasted. How well Kent knows his stuff! Not just the jargon of the high seas — the pawls and maintops and the quarter-boats and the catheads — but the psychology of naval men in uniform.” —Sunday Telegraph


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About the Author

Alexander Kent is the author of twenty-seven acclaimed books featuring Richard Bolitho. Under his own name, Douglas Reeman, he has written over thirty novels and two-non-fiction books.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: William Heinemann (February 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 043401351X
• ISBN-13: 978-0434013517
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,745,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Heart of Oak, July 30, 2011

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This review is from: Heart of Oak (Paperback)

An excellent story as are all books written by Alexander Kent ( Douglass Reeman ). I highly recommend his books to anyone interested in books written in the tradition of Horatio Hornblower ( C.S. Forester ). I have all of the Bolitho series and wish there were more . I am a new customer to Amazon ,but I will be a faithful one from now on.