Brown on Resolution

Forester, C. S.

ISBN 10: 0330021664 / ISBN 13: 9780330021661

Published by Pan Macmillan, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Brown on Resolution
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330021664
• ISBN 13: 9780330021661
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

For all his young life Albert Brown had known that he was to join the Navy, and the beginning of the First World War finds him a Leading Seaman. Alone on the barren island of Resolution in the South Pacific, he fights against the might of a German battleship. This is the first of C.S.Forester's novels about the sea.

About the Author

Cecil Scott "C.S." Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 - 2 April 1966), 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.