C.S. Forester
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.
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The heroic tale of a few hours in the life of a British light cruiser in World War II, and of the men on it. The Ship is part of the protecting screen of a convoy vital to the continued effectiveness of Malta, threatened with every danger imaginable. A civilian population and garrison were on short rations until the food these ships carried could be delivered to them. These five light cruisers, an