The Fireship

by C. Northcote Parkinson

Overview

Having obtained a position on the Glatton, Richard Delancey is soon to see action in the Battle of Camperdown. But the Nore and Spithead mutinies intervene to upset the course of his career. He devises an original legal defense in the court martial of a fellow officer accused of murder, and acquits himself well, but falls afoul of the naval establishment and is passed over in the general promotion of all in his rank.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590130155
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2002
Series:	The Richard Delancey Novels , #3
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Cyril Northcote Parkinson pursued a distinguished academic career on both sides of the Atlantic and first became famous for "Parkinson's Law"—work expands to fill the time allotted to it. Parkinson wrote many books on British politics and economics. His first fictional effort, a "biography" of Horatio Hornblower, met with considerable acclaim and led to the Richard Delancey series. C. Northcote Parkinson died in 1993.

Editorial Reviews

If you enjoy salty tales told by the man who knows the sea, British history, as well as words, winches and wimbrels, Devil to Pay will see you through a fine evening handily.

Portland (Maine) Sunday Telegram

[Parkinson's] knowledge of the naval world of the Napoleonic era was encyclopaedic; his understanding of ships and seamen, of politics, strategy and trade almost unrivalled.

David Powell

Most fictional heroes of the Napoleonic Wars at sea are as wooden as their ships, a generalisation from which Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and Professor Parkinson's Richard Delancey can be exempted.

The Observer

Authentic naval adventure. .. full of action.

London Sunday Times

A historical novelist in the best traditions of C.S. Forester and Alexander Kent.

Time and Tide

The sharp tang of powder and tar and salty sea along with the boom of the cannon and shouts of men in battle.

The Dallas Morning News

[Parkinson's] knowledge of the naval world of the Napoleonic era was encyclopaedic; his understanding of ships and seamen, of politics, strategy and trade almost unrivalled.  —David Powell, Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers

If you enjoy salty tales told by the man who knows the sea, British history, as well as words, winches and wimbrels, Devil to Pay will see you through a fine evening handily.

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