Posted by Dave Thewlis on September 27, 2008 at 23:50:14 user dthewlis.
In Reply to: Re: Aubrey-Maturin novels posted by Owen Roberts on September 26, 2008 at 19:08:02:
And for Hornblower fans, let me put in a plug for C. Northcote Parkinson's Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower. A first-rate biography and remarkable achievement despite, or perhaps because, the subject is fictional. I thought Parkinson did an excellent job of fitting Hornblower into history.