Flying Colours (Hornblower Saga #8) C.S. Forester mismantle "A pulse of something rare

"A pulse of something rare

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Flying Colours (Hornblower Saga #8) C.S. Forester mismantle "A pulse of something rareThis seventh volume in the Hornblower series opens with Captain Horatio Hornblower a prisoner in the French fortress of Rosas, having had to surrender his ship, the "Sutherland," after a long and bloody battle. Within days he and his first lieutenant, Bush, who was crippled in the last fight, will be taken to Paris to be tried on trumped up charges of violating the laws of war, and most probably executed as an attempt by Napoleon to rally the war