Band of Brothers: A Midshipman Bolitho Novel (The ...
 Terrific series -- but a really really bad, really really short entry in it!: This is the most recently published of the more than two dozen novels in the Richard Bolitho naval series, but by the internal chronology, it comes third. It's here that [... more]
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Form Line of Battle (Richard Bolitho Novels)
What I've Come to Expect from Kent...: I started reading Alexander Kent's Bolitho novels because I had exhausted Forester's and O'Brian's respective series, and in doing so I had developed a strong appetite for age of sail fiction. Kent's series, by [... more]
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Relentless Pursuit (The Bolitho Novels)
The Royal Navy and a Quasi Peace: Alexander Kent is now depicting the Royal Navy without a defined enemy and the impact this is having on it. Without a belligerent France across the Channel, the strength of the navy is slashed to the bone and beyond. [... more]
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Enemy In Sight
Hoist the gun ports! Stand by for action and adventure: Mr. Kent does it again. Bolitho's adventures take him to duty blockading the French, then off to the distant edges of empire. The salt spray and billowing mainsails assail the reader with a sense of [... more]
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Second to None (The Bolitho Novels)
Author: Alexander Kent Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9780935526943 ISBN: 0935526943 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: 2001-04-01 [... more]
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Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger
3 smuggled cargoes for a weak Bolitho effort: The Richard Bolitho series is one of the most popular of all naval fiction series. The author brings authenticity to the subject having served in World War II in the Royal Navy and being a sailor in his own [... more]
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Sloop of War (Richard Bolitho Novels)
The Burden of Command: With this book my opinion of Alexander Kent soars. This is a terrifically well written novel of small ship coastal actions during the American rebellion. Bolitho has risen to command his own ship and is engaged in many forms of [... more]
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In Gallant Company (Richard Bolitho Novels)
One of the best sea-story series around: This is the first Richard Bolitho novel written, and the fourth by the series internal chonology. Bolitho begins the spring of 1777 as Fourth Lieutenant in the eighty-gun Trojan lying in New York harbor. Because [... more]
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For My Country's Freedom
Tired formula writing: There really is no point in straying beyond O'Brian, Forrester, Parkinson or Showell Styles. Kent and Pope are in the same mould; poor research, improbable characters, formula writing. Don't waste your time on this book. Not up to [... more]
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Command A Kings Ship
A gripping sea story: As I have noted before in other reviews, Kent is a great story teller. In this one, after the peace is signed at Versailles between France and England following the American Revolutionary War, the protagonist of the series (this is [... more]
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The Complete Midshipman Bolitho (The Bolitho Novels)
I am a Bolitho-holic: I have sworn off tobacco and alcohol. I hate illegal substances and have surrendered to complete sobriety. Sugar and chocolate, too much coffee, excessive red meat, more than modest amounts of dairy products, obsessive exercise and [... more]
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Heart of Oak: The Bolitho Novels #27 (The Bolitho Novels)
Too much oak, not enough heart: I haved read all of the Bolitho novels and I feel that this latest one was most disappointing. It had far less adventure in it and was rather dull for a good half of its 267 pages. Maybe it is time for Alexander Kent to [... more]
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