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.
ST?STI PAR DABUD?ERALDS DARELS?ENGURENA CE??Velt?ju Krisam un Di?imam, atceroties d?les, lirastes un velosip?dus d?men? (nemaz nerun?jot par j??t?rpi?iem)J?su priek?? ir v?st?jums par se?u m?ne?u ce?ojumu, kas m?s aizveda uz Jaunz?landi, Austr?liju un Malaju. Ce?ojumam bija div?j?di nol?ki: pirmk?rt, es grib?ju redz?t, kas ?aj?s zem?s tiek dar?ts dz?vnieku aizsardz?b?, un, otrk?rt, B?-B?-S? bija nodoms uz?emt daudzs?riju telev?zijas filmu par ??du t?mu. Es skaidri apzinos, ka p?r?k ?sais laiks, ko esam aizvad?ju?i katr? no ??m zem?m, padara m?su eksped?ciju l?dz?gu ?oti steidz?gam kaptei?a Kuka ce?ojumam, t?p?c var gad?ties, ka da?uviet gr?mat? b?s nodar?ts p?ri ?sten?bai un atst?ts bez iev?r?bas daudz kas cits, par ko b?tu vajadz?jis past?st?t.
No one breaks out of the brutal convict labor camp at Five Shadows -- but Corey Bowen is ready to die trying. They framed him to put him in there, and beat him bloody and nearly dead after his last escape attempt. He'll have help this time -- from a lady with murder on her mind and a debt to pay back. Because freedom isn't enough for primed dynamite like Bowen. And he won't leave the corrupt desert hell behind him until a few scores are settled…permanently.
1795 — in der Biskaya: Kurz nach seiner Hochzeit mit Cheney mu? Richard Bolitho mit seiner «Hyperion» und einer noch unerprobten Mannschaft auslaufen, um die britische Blockade der Seeh?fe Frankreichs zu verst?rken. Ein grausames Verbrechen, dem Kapit?n Bolitho unt?tig zusehen mu?, macht ihn zum Todfeind des franz?sischen Admirals Lequiller; ?ber Tausende von Seemeilen jagt er ihn bis nach Westindien und wieder zur?ck in spanische Gew?sser, ehe er ihn endlich in der Biskaya stellen und in einem m?rderischen Seegefecht bezwingen kann.
1789 — Auf Befehl des Gouverneurs der jungen britischen Kolonie Neus?dwales l?uft Kapit?n Richard Bolitho mit seiner Fregatte in den S?dpazifik 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 …
Das Jahr des Herrn 1863 ist eine d?stere, hoffnungslose Zeit in Deutschland. Das einfache Volk ist verarmt. Wer Arbeit hat, schuftet f?r Groschen. Menschen sterben an Hunger und Epidemien.In dieser Zeit ist »Amerika« ein Wort der Hoffnung und Sehnsucht - ein Land, wo jeder sein Gl?ck machen und zu Wohlstand kommen kann. Ein magisches Wort auch f?r den jungen Handwerksgesellen Jacob Adler, der zu Unrecht des Mordversuchs beschuldigt wird und aus Deutschland fliehen muss.Doch sein Leben in Amerika wird h?rter und gefahrvoller sein, als er es sich in seinen ?rgsten Tr?umen vorzustellen vermag. Ein Abenteuer wartet auf JacobAdler, wie es kaum ein zweiter je erlebt hat...
describes the adventures of Horatio Hornblower and his companions escaping from imprisonment in Napoleonic France and returning to England. It was originally published in 1938 as the third in the series, but is ninth by internal chronology.
It is March 1811, and Richard Bolitho is recalled to duty after only two and a half months of precious peace in Cornwall with his beloved mistress Catherine. Promoted Admiral, his choice of flagship and flag captain shock the Admiralty, but Bolitho, poignantly aware of his own vulnerability, surrounds himself only with those men he can trust completely: the faithful Allday, the withdrawn and intelligent Avery, and James Tyacke, who must confront the sternest test of his loyalty with great personal courage. When diplomacy fails the cannon must speak, and Bolitho, patrolling the troubled waters from Antigua north to Halifax, knows that when war with America comes he must fight an enemy not foreign but familiar, for the freedom to leave the sea forever.
In June 1793 Captain Richard Bolitho arrives at Gibraltar to take command of the Hyperion, a seventy-four-gun ship of the line. Although not completely recovered from a serious fever contracted in the Great South Sea, Bolitho is eager to get back to duty against the rising might of Revolutionary France. He sails to join Lord Hood to partake in the Monarchist-inspired occupation of Toulon. But at heart Bolitho is still a frigate captain, and he is soon fretting at being tied to the fleet's apron strings; his ship, too, is old and slow, her hull weed-encrusted after nearly four years' continuous commission. Beneath the Mediterranean sun, and often in sight of the enemy coast, Bolitho and his tired old ship face one conflict after another – and when at last the ill-fated campaign collapses in failure it is the Hyperion, outgunned and outnumbered, which takes her rightful place in the line of battle.
