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1 videodisc (approximately 138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, the HMS Surprise, and the larger French warship, Acheron, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. The ship's surgeon balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the...
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431 pages : map ; 25 cm.
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English
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Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator, Capt. William Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England's already precarious position in the Far East.
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Only twenty-seven years old, Horatio Hornblower has distinguished himself as a capable and intrepid officer in the Royal Navy. On a reconnaissance mission with the Hotspur, a three-masted frigate under his command, Hornblower and his crew narrowly avoid capture by their French adversaries, but the danger is not over. In the meantime, misgivings about his recent marriage also weigh heavily on the young officer's mind. In this 10th novel of the Hornblower...
10) Once a spy
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"British intelligence officer Simon Duval resigns his commission and returns to England. There he finds his cousin's widow, Suzanne Duval, the Comtesse de Chambron, working as a seamstress and living in reduced circumstances. While both believe they are beyond love and passion, their sympathetic bond leads Simon to propose a marriage of companionship, and Suzanne accepts. As she joins Simon in a search for his long missing foster brother, warmth and...
11) My bonny light horseman: being an account of the further adventures of Jacky Faber, in love and war
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436 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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While trying to run a respectable shipping business in 1806, teenaged Jacky Faber finds herself in France, spying for the British Crown in order to save her friends.
12) Ship of the line
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323 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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Captain Horatio Hornblower and the undaunted crew of the Sutherland set sail to rival the exploits of Napoleon's ships.
13) Hornblower during the crisis ; and Two stories: Hornblower's last temptation and the last encounter
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162 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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Richard Sharpe volume 8
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301 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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With the Duke of Wellington set to invade France, Major Richard Sharpe finds himself without a regiment, and disguising himself as a new recruit, uncovers in England a web of treachery and corruption.
16) Beat to quarters
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viii, 273 pages ; 21 cm
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With rations running dangerously low, Captain Hornblower fears that the lure of the South Sea islands may entice the crew to mutiny.
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xvii, 617 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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English
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In his major new history of the Russian conflict immortalized by Tolstoy in "War and Peace," Lieven provides an examination of the period from the Russian perspective, demonstrating that Napoleon's defeat in 1812 by the Russian army was just the beginning of what would be the longest military campaign in European history.
18) Sharpe's enemy
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1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The adventures of a maverick British officer who fights behind French lines in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars.
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Sharpe volume 1
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304 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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In 1809, Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is newly in command of the demoralized, distrustful soldiers of the 95th Rifles in Spain, and he must lead them to safety through the enemy infested hills.
20) Sharpe's rifles
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1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The adventures of a maverick British officer who fights behind French lines in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars.
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