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Author: Alexander Kent
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 11h 35m
This novel introduces Adam, nephew of Richard Bolitho, and captain of the newly-commissioned frigate 'Unrivalled'. The story follows Adam and his crew as they take on pirates and slavers in the aftermath of victory at Waterloo.
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Author Alexander Kent
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Duration 10h 4m
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, un...
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 10h 43m
June 1793, Gibraltar. The gathering might of revolutionary France prepares to engulf Europe in another bloody war. As in the past, Britain will stand or fall by the fighting power of her fleet. For Richard Bolitho, the renewal of hostilities means a fresh command and the chance of action after long months of inactivity. However, his mission to supp...
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 11h 14m
March 1784. It is a time of peace and most of Her Majesty's fleet is laid up. The frigate Undine is despatched to India and beyond, and even though the war with France is temporarily over, the far side of the world promises plenty of action for Undine's captain, Richard Bolitho. Bolitho has to face alone the new threats of European nations greedy f...
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 10h 52m
March 1814. Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England from several months' rigorous patrolling off the North American coast. War with the United States has not yet ended, but news of Napoleon's defeat and abdication has stunned a navy and a nation bled by years of European conflict. Victory has been the impossible dream and now, for Bolitho, a...
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Author Alexander Kent
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 11h 39m
It is October 1789, in New South Wales. Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His Majesty's ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho, who hopes to be ordered home to England. Instead, he is despatched on a mission to the islands of the Great South Se...
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