ELEMENTAL in its record of
unrepressed loves and hates is the story of how Sir Oliver Tressilian, Cornish
gentleman and sometime commander of one of Her Majesty's ships which dispersed
the Spanish Armada, became a follower of Mahmud, and a Barbary corsair—winning
for himself the title of Sakr-el-Bahr: Hawk of the Sea. He adopts the
picturesque Barbary costume and becomes a favorite of the Basha.
Finally on a captured Spanish ship he invades
the coast of England and carries away the girl whose love for him has been
poisoned by falsehood and whose unforgiving hate had kept him from returning to
his home. To save her from the harem of the Basha, he defies his commander, and
determines on escape. Undoubtedly this is one of the most dramatic moments in
any of Mr. Sabatini's books. The store of the Sea-Hawk's subsequent adventures
makes a superb and thrilling epic of romance.
The Sea-Hawk is a book
of fierce, bright color and amazing adventure, through which stalks one of the
truly great and masterful figures of romance.
This special edition of THE SEA-HAWK by
Rafael Sabatini, has been mile available to the Armed Forces of the United
States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Houghton Mifflin
Company, Boston.
Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., a
non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime