Hello All, I'm your newest member, a twenty-four-year Navy Sailor who has recently re-discovered the joys of nautical fiction. I've been drawn to this group...
Umm, this sounds a little bit like 'The Wrong War' but I don't recognize any of the rest of it. Is this a scene that was cut from the US version or is this a...
I'll do some homework on this, but I suspect that the HH producers may have "borrowed" the plotline from 'To Glory We Steer'. I know that--from my admittedly...
... War of 1812. I found it disappointing. ... That British guy, who wrote a whole lot of clever musical miniseries, including, "Pennies from Heaven" and "The...
... Dennis Potter. ... Yes, this was excellent. ... One of them is Ewan McGregor, later (among many other things) Obi Wan in the new Star Wars episodes. kind...
... War of 1812, surely? Great story though. ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more...
In a message dated 10/1/2004 1:31:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... I can't for the life of me figure out which film you are describing! Do you know the name...
... Gee, I immediately thought Midshipman Jack Hammond abandoning them when they blew up the semaphore station on the French coast, then they are captured by ...
In a message dated 10/1/04 10:50:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Nor was a bridge blown up in that episode. Maybe our newbie fell asleep during one film and...
... drawn ... in ... Welcome, Tom. You certainly stimulated some activity with your maiden voyage. <snip>..one of the plotlines of the Alexander ... It's been...
... This is not correct, but it is true that the entire Hornblower series does proceed the first Bolitho novel. . 1937 The Happy Return 1938 A Ship of the Line...
One of the writers often overlooked in the post-Forester explosion is Ellis K. Meacham. Meacham was a lawyer, then a judge (I don't know if that was the...
... 1952 ... Yes, thanks. That is what I meant. My point was that the HH stories televised so far were written nearly 20 years before Bolitho set sail for...
Hello, I have read the story......"The Captain from Conn." and found it an easy read. I was rather sad when I finished the book. It was funny to be suddenly...
Dear Willow, Mr. Meacham did write a trio of books about Percival Merewether of the Bombay Marine (The East Indiaman, On the Company´s Service, For King and ...
... In the first of the books Merewether is in London taking command of his new ship. He sees a Royal Navy ship preparing for a secret mission to Turkish...
So how do you actually pronounce "Bolitho"? "Bolly thoe"? "Ba lye thoe?" Was anyone else put off reading these books by their inability to pronounce the hero's...
I think it's "bow li tho"/ As for "Or by the overuse of exclamation marks! In dialogue! All the bloody time! Because the writer wasn't competent enough! To...
... Do you know how prolific he was! In addition to the Alexander Kent novels he wrote */dozens/* of dreadfully repetitive novels about world war 2! Under the...
Douglas Reeman was a London police officer when he and his first wife, Winifred, lived on a boat in the Thames when Reeman wrote his first book. Bolitho took...
The Thames waterman tells Merewether that the ship they are passing is "the ATROPOS twenty-two. She is saiuling to the Mediterranean to fish up treasure from a...
... I don't know about the Channel Islands but the Bolitho family and estate are still present here in Cornwall. I don't know about the Falmouth area where...
... I know. I've enjoyed Reeman's plot several times. However, there are two points worth mentioning. First, his early novels are fairly good. They were...
... And who has the answer to this conundrum? ... As a "writer" I have NO PROBLEM with exclamation marks in dialogue. My problem with them is in TEXT. 'Nuff...
I persuaded myself to ask this, since the group has just discussed CSF's will, book and television rights. The Hodder-Headline audiobook version of Hornblower...
I may be wrong, but I believe the fellow Kent met was in insurance. He may have been from Cornwall - that seems likely - but they met on one of the Channel...
