H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publication in 1885. Following a mysterious map of dubious reliability, a small group of men trek into southern Africa in search of a lost friend-and a...
December, 1801. The Peace of Amiens ends the long war with Napoleon Bonaparte’s France, but Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is appalled by its consequences. What is a dashing and successful frigate captain to do with himself ashore on half-pay?...
1943 — Occupied Greece
The SS unit’s mission was simple: round up Jews for the concentration camps. But beneath an isolated farmhouse, they find a far greater bounty — a hidden shrine to Alexander the Great and an urn filled with water...
In Kings and Emperors, the twenty-first book in Dewey Lambdin's beloved Alan Lewrie series, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is still in Gibraltar, his schemes for raids along the coast of southern Spain shot to a halt. He is reduced to commanding...
Following the footsteps of Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey, whose ripping adventures capture thousands of new readers each year, comes the heir apparent to the mantle of Forester and O'Brian: Dewey Lambdin, and his acclaimed Alan Lewrie...
1778: Der amerikanische Unabhängigkeitskampf stellt die Royal Navy vor eine harte Bewährungsprobe. Nur deshalb erhält der junge Leutnant Bolitho sein erstes selbständiges Kommando: auf der Korvette Sparrow als Begleitschutz...
1778: Der amerikanische Unabhängigkeitskampf stellt die Royal Navy vor eine harte Bewährungsprobe. Nur deshalb erhält der junge Leutnant Bolitho sein erstes selbständiges Kommando: auf der Korvette Sparrow als Begleitschutz einiger...