Still serving aboard the HMS Indefatigable, Horatio Hornblower has been promoted to acting Lieutenant. Neutral Spain has concluded a peace treaty with France and the British now have another enemy to ...

COMMODORE HORNBLOWER — C. S. Forester — Little, Brown ($2.50). “Get out my best uniform and sword! Have the horses put to in my chariot!” bellowed Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower when the Admiralty ...

Look lively. “Horatio Hornblower” is about to set sail again. Returning to A&E; in a fine follow-up to 1999’s Emmy-winning miniseries, the heroic 19th century naval officer finds himself facing a ...

CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER—C. S. Forester—Little, Brown ($2.75). It was bargain day this week for adventure-story readers. For the price of one big book, they could get three. Captain Horatio ...

Before taking the Renown back to Jamaica for their court martial on charges of mutiny, Hornblower, Kennedy, and Bush convince an insecure and indecisive Lt. Buckland, now acting captain, that it would ...

I just reread Victory of Eagles, one of my favorite books in Naomi Novik's excellent nine-book Temeraire series, and thought I'd briefly blog again about how much I like them. The books are set in ...

After 93 years on this planet — and ten minutes off it when he became the oldest human to head into outer space on the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket — William Shatner retains the wide-eyed wonder and ...

Enthusiasts of period dramas simply cannot miss this brilliant collection of ITV films currently available for streaming, this comes as after viewers have raved about a perfect 10/10 historical series ...