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 ...

Sir Edward Pellew visits Horatio Hornblower who is jail in Jamaica awaiting his trial on a charge of making a mutiny. His problems began six months earlier when he was appointed Third Lieutenant ...

Hornblower is back. The British Navy's go-to guy returns to television in two new A&E films this Sunday and next, making loyalty, honor and principle more fashionable than Tony Soprano for at least a ...

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 ...

The action of the Hornblower saga, a series of eleven novels and several short stories by C. S. Forester, begins in 1794. At that point in his life, Horatio Hornblower is a penniless, orphaned ...

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 ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.