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Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 — 2 April 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). His novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
Forester was born in Cairo and, after a family breakup at an early age, he moved with his mother to London and was educated at Alleyn's School, Dulwich College, south London, and Guy's Hospital, London, but did not complete his studies at the last named. "Forester had always worn glasses and been thin. Later, trying to enlist in the army he failed his physical and was told there was not a chance that we would be accepted even though he was of good height and somewhat athletic. In about 1921, after studying medicine for several years, he left academia and began writing seriously using his pen name."
He married Kathleen Belcher in 1926, had two sons (John and George Forester) and divorced in 1945. His elder son, John Forester, wrote a biography of his father.
During World War II, Forester moved to the United States where he worked for the British Information Service and wrote propaganda to encourage the US to join the Allies. He eventually settled in Berkeley, California. While living in Washington, D.C., he met a young British intelligence officer named Roald Dahl, whose experiences in the RAF he had heard of, and encouraged him to write about them. In 1947, he secretly married a woman named Dorothy Foster.
Forester wrote many other novels, among them The African Queen (1935) and The General (1936); Peninsular War novels in Death to the French (published in the United States as Rifleman Dodd) and The Gun (filmed as The Pride and the Passion in 1957); and seafaring stories that did not involve Hornblower, such as Brown on Resolution (1929); The Captain from Connecticut (1941); The Ship (1943) and Hunting the Bismarck (1959), which was used as the basis of the screenplay for the 1960 film Sink the Bismarck! Several of his works were filmed, most notably the 1951 film The African Queen, directed by John Huston. Forester is also credited as story writer for several movies not based on his published fiction, including Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942).
He wrote several volumes of short stories set during the Second World War. Those in The Nightmare (1954) were based on events in Nazi Germany, ending at the Nuremberg Trials. Stories in The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969) followed the career of the destroyer USS Boon, while many of those in Gold from Crete (1971) followed the destroyer HMS Apache. The last of the stories in the latter book - "If Hitler had invaded England" - offers an imagined sequence of events starting with Hitler's attempt to implement Operation Sea Lion, and culminating in the early military defeat of Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941. His non-fiction seafaring works include The Age of Fighting Sail (1956), an account of the sea battles between Great Britain and the United States in the War of 1812.
In addition to his novels of seafaring life, Forester also published two crime novels, Payment Deferred (1926), and Plain Murder (1930), and two children's books. One, Poo-Poo and the Dragons (1942), was created as a series of stories told to his younger son George to encourage him to finish his meals. George had mild food allergies that kept him feeling unwell, and he needed encouragement to eat. The second, The Barbary Pirates (1953), is a children's history of those early 19th-century pirates.
He can be seen as a contestant on 1 November 1956 edition of You Bet Your Life, commenting that his latest book is The Age of Fighting Sail.
In 2003 a "lost" novel of Forester's, The Pursued, was discovered and bought at an auction and was published by Penguin Classics on 3 November 2011.
British author Roald Dahl's writing career began after he met Forester in early 1942. According to Dahl's autobiographical Lucky Break, Forester asked Dahl about his experiences as a fighter pilot. This prompted Dahl to write his first story, "A Piece of Cake".
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/932179.C_S_Forester |
Hornblower Saga (Chronological Order) series
C.S. Forester - Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (read by Geoffrey Howard)
C.S. Forester - Lieutenant Hornblower (read by Geoffrey Howard)
C.S. Forester - Hornblower And The Hotspur (read by Geoffrey Howard)
C.S. Forester - Hornblower And The Crisis (read by Geoffrey Howard)
C.S. Forester - Hornblower And The Atropos (read by Geoffrey Howard)
C.S. Forester - Beat To Quarters (read by Geoffrey Howard)
C.S. Forester - A Ship Of The Line (read by Geoffrey Howard)
C.S. Forester - Flying Colours (read by Geoffrey Howard)
C.S. Forester - Commodore Hornblower (read by Geoffrey Howard)
C.S. Forester - Lord Hornblower (read by Christian Rodska)
C.S. Forester - Admiral Hornblower In The West Indies (read by Richard Green)
Other
C.S. Forester - Death To The French (read by Christian Rodska)
C.S. Forester - The Gun (read by Richard Brown)
C.S. Forester - The African Queen (read by Michael Kitchen)
C.S. Forester - The General (read by Richard Brown)
C.S. Forester - The Captain From Connecticut (read by Bill Whitaker)
C.S. Forester - The Ship (read by Tom Whitworth)
C.S. Forester - The Sky And The Forest (read by David Case)
C.S. Forester - The Good Shepherd (read by Richard Green)
C.S. Forester - The Last Nine Days Of The Bismarck (read by Richard Green)
C.S. Forester - The Man In The Yellow Raft (read by Stuart Courtney)
C.S. Forester - Single Handed (read by David Case)
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Hornblower Saga series
http://rapidgator.net/file/78a53a96362c2f42288392d3cc60ad25/Mr_Midshipman_Hornblower.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/41b323b681b6b3b87e02e08065274763/Lieutenant_Hornblower.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/bbb6253b20b8260628b29198f33bcbd0/Hornblower_And_The_Hotspur.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cd58f1ac793efa5574c3f9c878a3295e/Hornblower_And_The_Crisis.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fe93b8eb84630b56c3fd23c146c2fb8a/Hornblower_And_The_Atropos.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/387ab9cc2db929b108df4d0772d304e3/Beat_To_Quarters.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a73833a5a41c80e1e02370593c03609a/A_Ship_Of_The_Line.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4fb8773e7fa70f8985b938f66dce00dc/Flying_Colours.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/46551b13763f75d420d19aea950dafaf/Commodore_Hornblower.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d3e5a6165ca45b7bc289c9dab46bc436/Lord_Hornblower.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fd99e039f606a789da547a37ac866831/Admiral_Hornblower_In_The_West_Indies.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/462609fbeff7418f772e93b162340083/Death_To_The_French.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/73d17ebea00462178264a3bd5690fdf4/The_Gun.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cb497e573c0838146b6ab46748d62a7b/The_African_Queen.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/43db5275948915414b160b2c9dd17189/The_General.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3a46eb4358dd78b7230c4801f43fb439/The_Captain_From_Connecticut.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fcfc6482f0ab3bb6a86197d408b07378/The_Ship.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5d6f27568bda16403bc8cb4f27d34b80/The_Sky_And_The_Forest.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/96d965158bd8036d6be9e442d4204d90/The_Good_Shepherd.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542e40cba7ad03d33556fef18c127de/The_Last_Nine_Days_Of_The_Bismark.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8b331debcafdc1ceb749521714911e97/The_Man_In_The_Yellow_Raft.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/38019944c01233ae6fb0f503a2981ff5/Single_Handed.rar.html |
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