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Only Victor, The

By: Pan Books

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Historical Novels (Pan Books)

Last Stocked on 10/17/2020

Product Info

Title
Only Victor, The
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Alexander Kent
Publish Year
1990
Pages
340
Dimensions
4.5x7x1"
NKG Part #
2147580451
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

February 1806: Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho carries the news of Trafalgar to southern Africa, where he is to aid the ground forces in any way he can to retake Cape Town from the Dutch. Impatient to be home, Bolitho decides yet again that the boldest measures are best, and proves to the army that brave men do not die in vain.

But there is little respite. After a defiant, all-too-brief reunion with his mistress, Lady Catherine Somervell, Bolitho undertakes a secret mission to Denmark, which nearly ends in disaster and further damages his sight. When diplomacy fails, he is eager to quit the land and joins the expedition to bombard Copenhagen in a new flagship, Black Prince.