Heart Of Oak
  • Published: 12 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781446494851
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Heart Of Oak

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12 Mar 2020
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1 Mar 2008
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The new Bolitho novel from our greatest living naval writer.

It is February 1818, and Adam Bolitho longs for marriage and a safe personal harbour. But with so much of Britain's fleet redundant, he knows he is fortunate to be offered H.M.S. Onward, a new 38-gun frigate whose first mission is not war but diplomacy, as consort to the French frigate Nautilus.

Under the burning sun of North Africa, Bolitho is keenly aware of the envy and ambition among his officers, the troubled, restless spirits of his midshipmen, and the old enemy's proximity. It is only when Nautilus becomes a sacrificial offering on the altar of empire that every man discovers the brotherhood of the sea is more powerful than the bitter memories of an ocean of blood and decades of war.
  • Published: 12 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781446494851
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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About the author

Alexander Kent

Alexander Kent is the author of twenty-eight acclaimed books featuring Richard Bolitho. Under his own name, Douglas Reeman, and in the course of a career spanning forty-five years, he has written over thirty novels and two non-fiction books.

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Praise for Heart Of Oak

As you would expect, Kent is a dab hand at plotting and at action scenes, and this novel is another accomplished performance from the old man of the sea

The First Post

One of our foremost writers of naval fiction

The Sunday Times

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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