Heart of Oak - Alexander Kent - Unabridged Audiobook - 8 Cassette Tapes BBC.
READ BY MICHAEL JAYSTON
Michael Jayston is a highly-regarded actor, having appeared in numerous films, among them Cromwell, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Zulu Dawn and Nicholas and Alexandra. He has many TV credits to his name, such as Element of Doubt, A Bit of a Do, Outside Edge and Only Fools and Horses. On stage he has been seen in Henry V and Hamlet for the RSC, and Private Lives and The Way of the World.
HEART OF OAK
It is February 1818 and Adam Bolitho longs for marriage and a safe personal harbour. But with so much of Britain's fleet redundant, he knows he is fortunate to be offered H.M.S. Onward, a new 38-gun frigate whose first mission is not war but diplomacy, as consort to the French frigate Nautilus.
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Under the burning sun of North Africa, Bolitho is keenly aware of the envy and ambition among his officers, the troubled, restless spirits of his midshipmen, and the old enemy's proximity. It is only when Nautilus becomes a sacrificial offering on the altar of empire that every man discovers the brotherhood of the sea is more powerful than the bitter memories of an ocean of blood and decades of war.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alexander Kent is the author of 28 acclaimed books featuring Richard Bolitho. Under his own name, Douglas Reeman, and in the course of a career spanning 45 years, he has written over 30 novels and two non-fiction books.
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