TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hubbard,L.Ron
TI  - Mister Tidwell, gunner
SN  - 9781459684072
U1  - 813.912 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - [Sydney?]
PB  - Read How You Want
KW  - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
KW  - Naval operations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Naval battles
KW  - Short stories
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Adventure fiction
KW  - Large type books
N1  - Originally published: Hollywood, CA : Galaxy Press, [2014]
N2  - Imagine a young Laurence Olivier cast as a scholarly Oxford professor - an academic snatched out of his bookish world and pressed into service aboard Lord Nelson's legendary British fleet - in the position of schoolmaster. Such is the life of the land - loving, seafaring Mister Tidwell, Gunner. Thrust into service at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, Tidwell soon finds himself directly in the line of fire and way out of his depth. Fate has cast him into a terrible and terrifying spot - alone on deck to face the fearsome approach of a French man - o' - war. The professor is about to get an object lesson in war, self - reliance . . . and survival. Overwhelmed by the smell of gunpowder, the sound of cannons, and the sight of death, he will either experience the sweet taste of victory . . . or the bitter taste of his own blood
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