C. S. Forester

English novelist and historian. C. S. FORESTER was on a journalistic assignment in the Spanish Peninsula when the idea first occurred to him of assaulting the Napoleonic legend. That he has done so, skillfully, all will agree who have followed the exploits of his hero Horatio Hornblower, a lieutenant, then a captain, then an admiral of the British Navy at the time of Nelson. Mr. Forester’s novels have established him as one of the foremost seafaring writers of our time; in the preparation of them he has studied every more of the Corsican who became Emperor, and no one is better qualified to explain why Napoleon did not hold the enormous power he had generated.

English novelist and student of history, particularly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, C. S. FORESTER is the creator of Captain Horatio Hornblower and the author of some of the liveliest and best-written historical novels of our time. Readers who have been carried away by his stories of the sea should not overlook his remarkable novel of the First World War, The General.