Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the seventeenth book in the series.Jack Aubrey’s long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to the rank of Commodore and given a squadron of ships to command. His mission is twofold – to make a large dent in the slave trade off the coast of Africa and, on his return, to intercept a French fleet set for Bantry Bay with a cargo of weapons for the disaffected among the Irish. Invention and surprise follow at every turn in this tale of nineteenth-century seamanship, as rich, as compelling, as masterly as any of its predecessors.
Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1) by Patrick O'Brian SummaryThe beginning of the sweeping Aubrey-Maturin series. 'The best sea story I have ever read.' —Sir Francis Chichester This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle. Masters and Commanders by Andrew Roberts SummaryMasters and Commanders describes how four titanic figures shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War.
Each was exceptionally tough-willed and strong minded, and each was certain that he knew best how to win the war. Yet each knew that he had to win at least two of the others over in order to get his strategy adopted. The book traces the mutual suspicion and admiration, the rebuffs and the charm, the often explosive disagreements and wary reconciliations which resulted. Cochrane by David Cordingly SummaryIn this fascinating account of Thomas Cochrane's extraordinary life, David Cordingly (Under the Black Flag and The Billy Ruffian) unearths startling new details about the real-life 'Master and Commander'-from his heroic battles against the French navy to his role in the liberation of Chile, Peru, and Brazil, and the stock exchange scandal that forced him out of England and almost ended his naval career. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, his own travels, wide reading, and original research, Cordingly tells the rip-roaring story of the archetypal Romantic hero who conquered the seas and, in the process, defined his era.
Her Master and Commander by Karen Hawkins SummaryJust ask Reeves! Dying without legitimate issue, the late Earl of Rochester sent his butler extraordinaire, Reeves, to find his wild, illegitimate children and 'civilize' them. Reeves must seek out the first of the earl's arrogant sons, Captain Tristan Llevanth, a one-time pirate, and teach him to be a gentleman. A will of steel. Tristan Llevanth gave up his free-wheeling life as a pirate to fight at Admiral Nelson's side.
Wounded, Tristan will never again sail the seas he loves. Life has no more challenges. Or so he thinks, until Reeves brings a certain outspoken lady into the captain's uncultured househol. An iron-clad spirit. Reeves believes Tristan needs a spark to relight the fires of his soul. And who better than lovely Prudence Thistlewaite, the bane of the captain's existence? Prudence wants nothing to do with her wickedly handsome, ill-tempered neighbor.
Still, she cannot refuse the outlandish sum Reeves offers to smooth Tristan's rough edges. Can Prudence tame the rakish captain?
Or will Tristan gain what he most wishes, to become. Masters and Commanders by Andrew Roberts SummaryHow far did personality affect the grand strategy of the Second World War? Award-winning historian Andrew Roberts lays bare the four political masters and military commanders of the Western Allies - Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, General George C. Marshall and Lord Alanbrooke - between Pearl Harbour and VE-Day, coming to a number of startling conclusions. Employing verbatim accounts of Churchill's War Cabinet meetings never before reporduced in book form, as well as using the private papers of sixty-seven contemporaries of the four men, the inside story is told of the great war wartime conferences, explaining why and how the Allies attacked when and where they did.
The two masters (Churchill and Roosevelt) and two commanders (Marshall and Alanbrooke) were strong-willed and tough-minded and each was certain that he knew best how to win the war. Yet in order to get their strategies adopted, each needed to persuade at least two of the other three, and certainly not be so outmanouvered that he ever found himself in a minority of one.
Roberts reveals the dynamic behind the collective decisions upon which the lives of millions ultimately depended. The Far Side of the World (Vol. Book 10) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian SummaryThe inspiration for the major new motion picture starring Russell Crowe. The war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Stephen Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Disaster in various guises awaits them in the Great South Sea and in the far reaches of the Pacific: typhoons, castaways, shipwrecks, murder, and criminal insanity.
Master and Commander: War on the Seas of the Moon by Joe Piteo SummaryThe Ocean of Storms series of which Master and Commander is the first volume is set in the year 2142. It follows the lives and adventures of three people principally. Jack Ashton, a commander in the Navy of the Republic of Texas. Steven Montrosa, a physician and scientist, Jack's friend and colleague aboard ship.
And, Maria Domingo, Jack's second in command, a brilliant warrior in her own right, and a romantic figure in Montrosa's past.Master and Commander introduces Jack Ashton as he becomes the newly commissioned commander of the RTS Sofia. The Sofia is a small warship charged with patrolling the seas of the Moon. Seas that are part of the sovereign territory of the lunar Republic of Texas. In 2142 and the Earth is being devastated by a viral pandemic. The Moon has become a sanctuary from this plague. The plague is only one enemy however, as the nation states of the Moon have allied to continue the ancient battle between Western and Islamic culture.
Master and Commander follows Jack and the Sofia in their first sea trials, a test for the ship as well as the new commander and her crew. Jack discovers the isolation of command, the burden of responsibility, and the complexities of leadership. Jack meets Steven during his time in port; in the great domed city of Port Plato, the first metropolis to be terraformed and sealed from the lunar vacuum. Jack and Steven are not immediate friends. The personality shapes of an archetypical Naval commander and a gifted iconoclastic scientist struggle to find complimentary edges.
During their stay in Port Plato, they begin to find the connections that will eventually grow into mutual respect and an enduring friendship. Maria Domingo joins the Sofia as her First Officer. Domingo is an excellent officer with a stellar record, but promotion to commander has alluded her. She will be a fine addition to Ashton's staff aboard the Sofia. She feels she is Jack's equal, however, and this attitude strains their relationship but eventually evolves into an impressive military partnership.Montrosa's and Domingo's romance as teenagers on Earth remains vague and somewhat mysterious. It remains as romantic tension throughout Master and Commander. Steven seems to want to rekindle the relationship while Maria stays distant within the protection of her rank and Naval protocol.
The story continues with Jack's first official mission, a task to protect a convoy of freighters sailing across the Sea of Rain to the western port of Bianchini in the Bay of Rainbows. Jack must deal with an eclectic group of captains with far more experience at sea than Jack. Captains who are naturally skeptical of newly minted Naval commanders. This interplay complicates events during Jack's first time of being solely responsible for the tactics of a full-on naval battle. This is the severe test of a commander's skill, leadership, and psychology.
The attack on the convoy is a complex and multifaceted challenge for Jack, the ship's new doctor, and new first officer. The Sofia faces a highly skilled enemy alone.
An enemy playing on a field of their choosing and attacking a scattering flock of civilians each with their own idea on how to not to lose their ship.Master and Commander is a coming of age story. A young man being forged into a leader, a young woman struggling with love and ambition, a young idealist finding meaning in the bloodshed of war. Masters and Commanders by Andrew Roberts SummaryMasters and Commanders describes how four titanic figures shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. Each was exceptionally tough-willed and strong minded, and each was certain that he knew best how to win the war.
Yet each knew that he had to win at least two of the others over in order to get his strategy adopted. The book traces the mutual suspicion and admiration, the rebuffs and the charm, the often explosive disagreements and wary reconciliations which resulted. Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian SummaryThis tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining and enjoying more amorous adventures.
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Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life. He flees to the continent to seek refuge: instead he finds himself a hunted fugitive as Napoleon has ordered the internment of all Englishmen in France. Aubrey's adventures in escaping from France and the debtors' prison will grip the reader as fast as his unequalled actions at sea. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian SummaryThis, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war are faultless rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.