About this title: "Success 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 Admiralty in London and given his orders for a difficult and, to him, distasteful task. Even an advanced promotion to vice-admiral to make him one of the youngest ever appointed does not compensate for his sudden and thankless mission. Bolitho and his wife are expecting their first child, and for once he is loath to quit the land for the demands of duty. The Peace of Amiens, signed a few weeks ...
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Edition: American ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780399128783ISBN:0399128786
Description: Good in fair dust jacket. Ex-library. former library book. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 284 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Date Published: 1983-12-19
ISBN-13:9780399128783ISBN:0399128786
Description: Good. Ex-library copy in good condition with a mylar cover over the dust jacket, age discoloration/wear, and some library stamps and stickers. read more
Edition: 1st American e
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780399128783ISBN:0399128786
Description: Good/vg. Dust Jacket. Richard Bolitho novel. x. lib. but no external markings on book or dust jacket; spine has slight lean ISBN: 0399128786. read more
Edition: First Paperback Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Jove Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780515080520ISBN:0515080527
Description: Good. Brief summary of content available upon request by e-mail. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ulverscroft Large print, Leicester UK
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780708912553ISBN:0708912559
Description: Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Ex-Library. Usual markings and attachments, else near fine. Pictoral boards. Unknown printing. 490 p. ; LARGE PRINT EDITION read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: McBooks Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780935526714ISBN:0935526714
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. near fine, cover unmarked, binding tight and square, pages clean. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Richard Bolitho Novels (Paperback), 15. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Retailer-exclusive titles
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780091890797ISBN:0091890799
Description: Very Good. Paperback, Very Good, clean, tight, unmarked, light spine creases no cover creases. All orders are shipped by kbooks every business day. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Jove Books
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780515080520ISBN:0515080527
Description: Fine. This book is in fine condition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. It appears to have not had use. The cover has bumps and scuffs. It has been corner bumped. There is no creasing on the spine. read more
Description: Fine New in Fine jacket. PAPERBACK, Fine/Fine, Jove, 1984, Reprint, 5 oz. This copy has no signs of use, is in Excellent Condition Overall. Note: expect tanning of any paperback more than a few years old, regardless of condition. read more
Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
"#15 in the Richard Bolitho 17th-18th century British naval series. This novel covers 1802-1803 during which Bolitho is assigned a diplomatic mission which takes him to Boston and then the Caribbean. It is during a short lived period of peace between the French and British and war resumes by the time the mission ends. Contains more stirring naval action in which Bolitho continues to distinish himself."
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