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Beyond The Reef by Alexander Kent, --1992 [19] In
March 1808, as Napoleon holds Portugal and threatens his old ally
Spain, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho is despatched once more to
the Cape of Good Hope to establish a permanent naval force.
--P, Book Number B00794. List price $14.95, your price $12.70
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Colours Aloft by Alexander Kent, --1986 [16] 1803.
Falmouth. . . The grim reality of war at close quarters confronts
Bolitho, and he will be called upon to anticipate the strategies
of the French fleet. But the conflict has also taken on a personal
note in the vendetta between Bolitho and the French Admiral Jobert.
Sir Richard Bolitho's squadron is reconstituted, and sent to the
Mediterranean, where Bolitho must contend with a political attempt
to smear him and his flag captain, and a French squadron commanded
by the admiral he captured in Success to the Brave. --P, Book
Number B00791. List price $14.95, your price $12.70
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Command a King's Ship by Alexander Kent, --[6]
Bolitho captains the Undine in the Indian Ocean. Richard Bolitho
has cause to remember his admiral's words to him as he sets off
for India: The task I am giving you would be better handled by a
squadron. --P, Book Number B00599. List price $14.95, your
price $12.70
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Complete Paperback Bolitho Series(26); The by Alexander
Kent, --Includes books, 1 Midshipman Bolitho 2 Stand Into
Danger 3 In Gallant Company 4 Sloop of War 5 To Glory We Steer 6
Command a King's Ship 7 Passage to Mutiny 8 With All Despatch 9
Form Line of Battle! 10 Enemy In Sight! 11 The Flag Captain 12
Signal - Close Action! 13 The Inshore Squadron 14 A Tradition of
Victory 15 Success to the Brave 16 Colours Aloft! 17 Honour This
Day 18 The Only Victor 19 Beyond the Reef 20 The Darkening Sea 21
For My Country's Freedom 22 Cross of St George 23 Sword of Honour
24 Second to None 25 Relentless Pursuit 26 Man of War
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Cross Of St. George by Alexander Kent, --1996
[22]February 1813. In the wake of the War of 1812, Admiral Sir
Richard Bolitho fights fruitless skirmishes with men of the
frontier off Nova Scotia to defend Crown property. As the
admiral's enemies pull strings behind the scenes to bring Bolitho
down, his nephew Adam rises to the grueling challenges—for himself
and for his beloved uncle. Bolitho attempts to stem an American
invasion of Canada, while Admiral Herrick is sent to preside over
a mutiny court martial that the Admiralty intends will ruin
Bolitho's reputation. That plot is foiled by Herrick's rigid
integrity. --P, Book Number B00797. List price $16.95, your
price $14.40
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The Darkening Sea by Alexander Kent, -- [20]
1809-10. Increasing tensions with the Americans give rise to fears
of the United States allying with France. Bolitho is sent to the
Indian Ocean to contain the harassment of British merchant
shipping. Returning safely to England after the dramatic capture
of Martinique, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds an all too
brief respite from war and politics. But the shadow of a new
conflict already darkens the horizon. The old enemy, France,
forges an uneasy alliance with America, threatening the safety of
British trade routes. --P, Book Number B00795. List price
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Enemy In Sight by Alexander Kent, --1970 [10]
1794-95. Still on the refitted HYPERION, Bolitho sets sail with an
untrained crew for blockade duty off France's Biscay coast just as
his incompetent commander Commodore Mathias Pelham-Martin, an
incompetent egotist whose petty hostilities jeopardize the entire
fleet, lets the French escape. The British pursue the French force
to the West Indies, where the French plan is revealed: capture the
Spanish Flota ship to force Spain to enter the war as French
allies. --P, Book Number B00652. List price $14.95, your price
$12.70
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Flag Captain by Alexander Kent, --1971 [11] 1797.
The squadron in which Bolitho has served as flag captain for the
last two years is reassigned to the Western Mediterranean, in the
first British action there since the sea was abandoned in 1796. As
France continues her bitter struggle for supremacy on land and
sea, the Royal Navy receives a crippling blow at home: The Great
Mutiny. --P, Book Number B00786. List price $15.95, your price
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For My Country's Freedom by Alexander Kent, --1995
[21] March, 1811. Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho is once again
summoned to London. In defense of the Empire, the Admiralty must
quell the unrest in America or face war with those who were once
friends. The War of 1812 from Admiral Bolitho's POV. The American
big frigates demolish the smaller British ships. --P, Book
Number B00796. List price $15.95, your price $13.55
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Form Line of Battle by Alexander Kent, --1969 [9]
1793. England is once again at war. For Richard Bolitho, the
renewal of hostilities with France means the chance for action
after months of inactivity. Given command of the HYPERION, 74, in
the Mediterranean, Bolitho is part of an expedition to capture
Cozar and St. Clar. Under command of the man whom he relieved in
PHALAROPE, the St. Clar effort fails along with the Toulon,
leaving Bolitho to salvage the disaster. --P, Book Number
B00653. List price $14.95, your price $12.70
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Honour This Day by Alexander Kent, --1987 [17]
September 1804. As the war swells up again, Bolitho's squadron is
sent first to the West Indies with the task of intercepting a
Spanish quota ship and, then, in 1805 to the Mediterranean, to
prevent reinforcements from reaching the Combined Fleet at
Trafalgar. --P, Book Number B00792. List price $15.95, your
price $13.55
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In Gallant Company by Alexander Kent, --(3) As the
American revolution rages, Bolitho has to make a momentous
decision in the heat of battle affecting lives and, maybe,
nations. As a junior officer in the British Royal Navy, Bolitho is
caught up in the turmoil of American Revolution sea battles.
Against a growing fleet of American and French privateers, the
navy must maintain its blockade of Washington's vital military
supplies. Includes supplementary essay. --P, Book Number
B00487. List price $13.95, your price $11.85
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Inshore Squadron by Alexander Kent, --1977 [13]
1800. After seven years of war against France, the scene of battle
shifts abruptly from Europe to the Baltic when Britain's
long-standing ally, Denmark, suddenly poses a threat. Promoted to
Rear Admiral, Bolitho is sent to Denmark on a diplomatic mission,
then give command of the inshore squadron supporting the British
expedition in the Baltic in 1800. --P, Book Number B00788. List
price $13.95, your price $11.85
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Man of War [26] (first edition) by Alexander Kent,
--1817. . . Ghostly ships fill every harbor in Antigua,
superfluous in the aftermath of war. In this uneasy peace, Adam
Bolitho once more sails to the haunted waters of the Caribbean,
where the quarry is a renegade foe who traffics in human life.
Kent's seafaring men must rely on courage, honor, and quick
thinking to survive.
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Man of War [26] by Alexander Kent, --1817. . .
Ghostly ships fill every harbor in Antigua, superfluous in the
aftermath of war. In this uneasy peace, Adam Bolitho once more
sails to the haunted waters of the Caribbean, where the quarry
is a renegade foe who traffics in human life. Kent's seafaring
men must rely on courage, honor, and quick thinking to survive.
--P, Book Number B01176. List price $13.95, your price $11.85
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Midshipman Bolitho by Alexander Kent, --(1) The
first in the famous Richard Bolitho series of naval action novels
in which the young midshipman joins his first ship, HMS Gorgan,
discovering how dangerous the Cornwall coast has become. Two
novels in one: young Bolitho joins the Gorgon and battles pirates
off the coast of Africa. At home, he helps clear the coast of
smugglers. --P, Book Number B00485. List price $13.95, your
price $11.85
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Only Victor; The by Alexander Kent, --1990 [18]
1806. 1806: A frigate carrying Sir Richard Bolitho drops anchor
off the shores of Southern Africa where an expeditionary force is
attempting to recapture Cape Town from the Dutch. Later, in
Denmark, he fights a battle in the North Sea against a force
containing the ship that sank HYPERION n HONOR THIS DAY. --P,
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Passage To Mutiny by Alexander Kent, --1976 [7]
1789-91. Commanding TEMPEST, 36, Bolitho's search for the BOUNTY
mutineers is interrupted as the first ripples of the French
Revolution wash across the Great South Sea. TEMPEST is called to
action against the pirate Tuke, who successively captures a
British pay ship and a mutinying French frigate, the ARGUS.
--P, Book Number B00650. List price $15.95, your price $13.55
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Relentless Pursuit (first edition) by Alexander Kent,
--[25] Isolated in grief, Captain Adam Bolitho has no choice.
Preoccupied with avenging his uncle's death but following orders,
he must sail the 46-gun frigate Unrivalled to Sierra Leone to aid
His Majesty's campaign against slave-runners. But confronting an
ill-fitted fleet, an entrenched adversary, and the aggressive
opposition of the Algerian overlord, he may be setting his crew on
a course of doom. --H, Book Number B00961. List price $24.95,
your price $19.95
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Relentless Pursuit by Alexander Kent, --[25]
Isolated in grief, Captain Adam Bolitho has no choice. Preoccupied
with avenging his uncle's death but following orders, he must sail
the 46-gun frigate Unrivalled to Sierra Leone to aid His Majesty's
campaign against slave-runners. But confronting an ill-fitted
fleet, an entrenched adversary, and the aggressive opposition of
the Algerian overlord, he may be setting his crew on a course of
doom. --P, Book Number B01096. List price $24.95, your price
$21.20
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Second to None by Alexander Kent, --(24) As if
from a dream, Adam Bolitho awakens to his responsibilities as
captain of the Unrivalled. Set on the eve of Waterloo, Second to
None is Alexander Kent's latest addition to his long Bolitho
chronicle and the opening of its second age. Battling pirates and
slavers, Adam stands alone at the dawn of a new era in history,
poised to take up the intrigue, the duty, and the bond with the
sea which are his legacy. --P, Book Number B00953. List price
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Signal Close Action by Alexander Kent, --1974 [12]
1798. Bolitho, a Commodore, is given charge of a small squadron
serving as Nelson's vanguard in the Mediterranean. Captain Bolitho
faces Napoleon's naval forces, who are amassing in the
Mediterranean preparing to annex Egypt. Overcoming treacherous and
incompetent captains, Bolitho tracks down and destroys the French
siege train at Corfu, allowing Nelson to fight Battle of the Nile
without fear of shore batteries. --P, Book Number B00787. List
price $15.95, your price $13.55
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Sloop Of War by Alexander Kent, --1972 [4]
1778-81. Bolitho, promoted, takes charge of the sloop SPARROW, 20,
seeing action in North American and West Indies waters fighting
privateers, rebels, and the French.. The first half, set in 1778
covers Bolitho's tenure as Commander. The second half, in 1781,
has Bolitho as a Captain, and climaxes at the Battle of the
Chesapeake. --P, Book Number B00556. List price $14.95, your
price $12.70
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Stand Into Danger by Alexander Kent, --(2) 1774
sees Bolitho appointed Third Lt. joining the frigate Destiny on a
secret mission, facing conspiracy, treason, piracy. --P, Book
Number B00486. List price $13.95, your price $11.85
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Success To The Brave by Alexander Kent, --1983
[15] (1802. During the Peace of Amiens, Vice Admiral Bolitho is
sent on a diplomatic mission to the United States and the West
Indies. Bolitho must enforce treaty provision to turn over a
British colony to the French. Both the colonists and the US resist
the transfer, but the French wars break out again, giving Bolitho
an opportunity to again capture his French opposite. --P, Book
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Sword of Honour by Alexander Kent, --[23] March
1814 . . . An ultimately decisive episode in the Bolitho canon,
Sword of Honour sees Sir Richard return from a wearing campaign in
North American waters to take up a command in Malta. Meanwhile,
his nephew Adam remains behind as captain of a frigate on the
American coast. As England's long war with Napoleon reaches its
end, will Richard Bolitho's longing for peace_both public and
personal_be fulfilled? --P, Book Number B00798. List price
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To Glory We Steer by Alexander Kent, --[5] Now
captain of the frigate Phalarope, Bolitho deals with a mutinous
crew and fights in the Battle of Saintes. --P, Book Number
B00557. List price $14.95, your price $12.70
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Tradition Of Victory by Alexander Kent, --1981
[14] July 1801. After eight years of conflict, rumors of peace
between Britain and France abound but the harsh reality is war.
Following actions in the Baltic, Bolitho is reassigned to the Bay
of Biscay, with his squadron assigned the task of destroying the
French invasion fleet. Bolitho faces a former captor in the
climactic battle concluding the novel. --P, Book Number B00789.
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With All Despatch by Alexander Kent, --1988 [8]
1792. Bolitho, in recovery from the fever contracted in the Great
South Sea, is given a recruiting assignment in the Nore.
Complicating the situation is corruption in local government and
naval officals. Brutal smugglers, occupy the Channel. Bolitho's
mission: to take three speedy topsail cutters and fight the
raiders off the coast of Kent. --P, Book Number B00651. List
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