Book Review: Ship of the Line

[vespican]

For the past couple of weeks I've been promising a review of C. S. Forester's Ship of the Line.  I've just completed it, and here it is.
Dave

Ship of the Line

By C. S. Forester

Reviewed by D. Andrew McChesney

This is early classic Hornblower, the second novel written, and the second part of the larger Captain Horatio

Comments

[anteros_lmc]

Belated thanks for the review Dave. I'm only half way through the series but I think Ship of the Line is definitely one of my favourites so far. I love the way it builds up to the inevitable conclusion and I think Hornblower has never seemed more human then when he strikes Sutherland's colours. I thought the assault on Rosas was very well written, and having read several contemporary accounts of similar actions Forester seems to have got it spot on.

Hornblower’s fear of failure, lack of belief in himself, and conflicting emotional attachments
You've very neatly summed up Hornblower's character there!