C. S. Forester
(1899 - 1966)
Cecil Scott “C. S.” Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith. He was an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare.
His most notable works were the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston).
His novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
Bibliography
Lord Hornblower (1946)
In the process of capturing HMS Flame, which has been taken over by mutineers, Hornblower takes the port of Le Havre.
Lord Nelson (1929)
A biography of Britain’s greatest Admiral, based on his letters and dispatches.
Read online at archive.org.
Louis XIV: King of France and Navarre (1928)
A biography of the long reigning ‘Sun King’ of France, builder of Versailles.
Love Lies Dreaming (1927)
A writer’s story of courtship and marriage.
Love Lies Dreaming (1927)
A writer’s story of courtship and marriage.
The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969)
A collection of eight short stories of men at war in World War II.
The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969)
A collection of eight short stories of men at war in World War II.
Marionettes at Home (1936)
A writer on his hobby.
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
The future admiral begins his career in the Justinian and is seasick off Spithead.
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
The future admiral begins his career in the Justinian and is seasick off Spithead.
- Read online at archive.org.
Napoleon and His Court (1924)
A history of the Napoleonic empire’s court.
Napoleon and His Court (1924)
A history of the Napoleonic empire’s court.
The Naval War of 1812 (1957)
The fledgling Unites States Navy with its superfrigates takes on the world’s greatest navy. This British edition has plates lacking in the American edition.
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Nelson (1929)
A life of the victor of Trafalgar.
The Nightmare (1954)
Ten fictionalized stories of Nazi atrocities.
The Nightmare (1954)
Ten stories based on Nazi atrocities, as documented at the Nuremberg trials.
Read online at archive.org.
Nurse Cavell (1933)
A play based on the life of Edith Cavell, a British nurse working in Belgium during World War I who was shot by a German military tribunal for assisting allied soldiers to escape to neutral Holland.
C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
The Paid Piper (1924)
The adventures of a tramp among high and low.
A Pawn Among Kings (1924)
The story of a Hungarian girl who plays a decisive part in the events that end at Waterloo.
Payment Deferred (1926)
William Marble did the murder. The question is, will fate let him get away with it?