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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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C.S. Forester
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(Cecil Scott Forester, 1899–1966) Novelist who was already well established before the first appearance of his most successful character, Horatio Hornblower. (The African Queen, published in 1935, became a very successful film in 1951 starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.) Hornblower makes his entrance in The Happy Return (1937) as a midshipman in the British navy in 1793. A further 11 novels, meticulous in their detail of ships and naval conditions, follow the self-doubting hero through the Napoleonic Wars until he reaches the rank of admiral. There is much in him of Horatio *Nelson, a biography of whom Forester had published in 1929.
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