Tradition of Victory (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

Tradition of Victory (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

This fourteenth Bolitho novel has the epic scenes of action, the powerful characterization and the authentic period detail that have made Alexander Kent a bestseller wherever sea stories are read. After eight years of war between Britain and France there is at last a rumour of

Only Victor - (Richard Bolitho: Book 20) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

FEBRUARY 1806The frigate carrying Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho drops anchor off the shores of southern

Honour This Day - (Richard Bolitho: Book 19) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

He has written dozens of naval books under his own name and the pseudonym Alexander Kent, including the famous Richard Bolitho books set during the Napoleonic

Darkening Sea (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

Returning safely to England after the dramatic capture of Martinque, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds an all too brief respite from war and politics in the arms of his mistress Catherine Somervell. Although ordered immediately to the Indian Ocean, for the first time Bolitho's thoughts are not

Relentless Pursuit (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

As captain of His Majesty's frigate Unrivalled of forty-six guns, Adam Bolitho is required to assist the senior officer of the patrolling squadron. But all efforts of the patrols to curb a flourishing trade in human life are hampered by unsuitable ships, and by the belligerence of the Dey of

Band Of Brothers (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

The new year of 1774 seems to offer Richard Bolitho and his friend Martyn Dancer the culmination of a dream. Both have been recommended for promotion, although they have not yet gained the coveted lieutenant's

Colours Aloft! (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

Colours Aloft!, the sixteenth Richard Bolitho novel, bears all the hallmarks of its best-selling predecessors. September 1803Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds himself the new master of the Argonaute, a French flagship taken in

In the King's Name (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

A searing and gripping tale of trouble on the high seas, and of the weakness of the human spirit, In the King's Name heralds the return of our greatest living maritime writer and the legendary Adam

Second To None (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

But peace will present its own challenge to Adam Bolitho, captain of His Majesty's Ship Unrivalled, as many of his contemporaries face the prospect of discharge. The life of a frigate captain is always lonely, but for Adam, mourning the death of his uncle Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho, that

Form Line of Battle - (Richard Bolitho: Book 11) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

June 1793, Gibraltar - The gathering might of revolutionary France prepares to engulf Europe in another bloody war. For Richard Bolitho, the renewal of hostilities means a fresh command and the chance of action after long months of inactivity. Bolitho and the crew of the Hyperion are trapped by the

Sword Of Honour - (Richard Bolitho: Book 25) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

March 1814Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England from several months' rigorous patrolling off the North American

1946: The Making of the Modern World (Sebestyen Victor)(Paperback / softback)

A compelling account of a crucial year in post-war history, in the tradition of Margaret MacMillan's award-winning and bestselling The

Passage To Mutiny - (Richard Bolitho: Book 9) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

OCTOBER 1789, NEW SOUTH WALESInto Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate

Heart Of Oak (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

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

Cross Of St George - (Richard Bolitho: Book 24) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

February 1813With convoys from Canada and the Caribbean falling victim to American privateers, Sir Richard Bolitho returns to Halifax to pursue a war he knows will not be won, but which neither Britain nor the United States can afford to lose. England's youngest admiral desires only

Villages of Kent (Harris Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Signal Close Action - (Richard Bolitho: Book 14) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

When in 1798, Richard Bolitho hoists his pendant as commodore of a squadron, and prepares to re-enter the Mediterranean, he is soon made aware of his responsibility. There are rumours of a massive French armada and of the latest type of artillery, and Bolitho's orders are to seek out the enemy, and

For My Country's Freedom - (Richard Bolitho: Book 23) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

March, 1811After two and a half months of precious peace in Cornwall with his beloved mistress Catherine, Admiral Richard Bolitho is once again summoned to

Flag Captain - (Richard Bolitho: Book 13) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

In the spring of 1797, Richard Bolitho brings the 100-gun Euryalus home to Falmouth to be flagship of the hastily formed squadron, which has been chosen to make the first British re-entry to the Mediterranean for nearly a year. As flag captain, Bolitho is made to contend with the unyielding

With All Despatch (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

As the clouds of war begin to rise once more over the Channel, he has no choice but to accept an appointment to the Nore. With his small flotilla of three topsail cutters Bolitho sets out to search the coast for seamen who have fled the harsh discipline of His Majesty's Navy for the more tempting

Man Of War - A Richard Bolitho Adventure (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

Every harbour and estuary is filled with ghostly ships, the famous and the legendary redundant in the aftermath of the war. In this uneasy peace, Adam Bolitho is fortunate to be offered the seventy-four gun Athena, and as flag captain to Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Bethune once more follows his destiny

Alphabet Squadron (Freed Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

The first novel in a new trilogy starring veteran New Republic pilots!On the brink of victory in a brutal war, five New Republic pilots transform from hunted to hunters in this epic Star Wars

Suspect - A contributing source for the film Richard Jewell (Alexander Kent)(Paperback / softback)

The masterful true-crime account of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing that captured the world's attention, and Richard Jewell, the heroic security guard-turned-suspect at the heart of it

Enemy In Sight - (Richard Bolitho: Book 12) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

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