Hornblower Takes Command: Hornblower and the Atropos & Beat to Quarters

Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order #5-6 omnibus abridged

by C.S. Forester, Guy P. Griggs

Junior edition published for the younger reader which were excerpted from the regular Hornblower novels.

223 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1940

About the author

Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure and military crusades. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, about naval warfare 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.