In the final instalment of the Horatio Hornblower series we visit some lesser known adventures across our hero's long career, including Napoleon's plans to invade England . . .
C. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899, where his father was
stationed as a government official. He studied medicine at Guy's
Hospital and, after leaving Guy's without a degree, he turned to
writing as a career.
His first success was Payment Deferred, a novel written at
the age of twenty-four and later dramatized and filmed with Charles
Laughton in the leading role. In 1932 Forester was offered a
Hollywood contract, and from then until 1939 he spent thirteen
weeks of every year in America.
On the outbreak of war he entered the Ministry of Information and
later he sailed with the Royal Navy to collect the material for
The Ship. He made a voyage to the Bering Sea to gather
material for a similar book on the United States Navy, and it was
during this trip that he was stricken with arteriosclerosis, a
disease which left him crippled. However, he continued to write and
in the Hornblower novels created the most renowned sailor in
contemporary fiction. He died in 1966.
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