Blurb Alexander Kent
In Gallant Company
The tenth Richard Bolitho novel in Alexander Kent's spectacularly successful series deals with Bolitho's life as a young lieutenant aboard the Trojan, an eighty-gun ship of the line. In sequence the events take place immediately before those covered by Sloop of War, hailed by the Evening Standard as both 'truly stirring stuff' and 'historically and technically accurate'
The year is 1777 when the revolution in America has erupted into a full-scale war. The navy's main task is to prevent military supplies from reaching Washington's armies and to destroy the fast-growing fleet of French and American privateers. As a junior officer Bolitho is often bewildered by swiftly changing events, but in a ship of the line, under a hard and determined captain, he has little opportunity for uncertainty. At a time of shortages and sudden death even a lieutenant can find himself faced with tasks and decisions more suitably given to officers of greater experience-and as the Trojan goes about her affairs the threat to Bolitho and his companions makes itself felt from New York to the Caribbean.
Told with the tremendous power and skill that have made best-sellers of all the previous Bolitho books, In Gallant Company will need no recommendation to lovers of stories about the eighteenth-century navy.
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