A troubled peace with France means that in the harbours and estuaries around England, the royal fleet has been left to rot. Even a frigate captain as famous as Richard Bolitho is forced to swallow his
SynopsisIn March 1808, as Napoleon holds Portugal and threatens his old ally Spain, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho is dispatched once more to the Cape of Good Hope to establish a permanent naval for
SynopsisSuccess to the Brave is the fifteenth Richard Bolitho story and chronologically it follows the events covered by A Tradition of Victory.In the spring of 1802 Richard Bolitho is summoned to the
SynopsisReturning safely to England after the dramatic capture of Martinque, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds an all too brief respite from war and politics in the arms of his mistress Catherine