- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: McBooks Press
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1590131061
- ISBN-13: 978-1590131060
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.1 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,067,540 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Impeccable historical detail,
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This review is from: Band of Brothers (Paperback)
n this collection it was Band of Brothers I had not previously read. As always with Kent's Bolitho series, impeccable historical research and attention to detail. Character point of view tends to wander a bit, but not so that it's distracting. Great naval, Georgian/Regency Era escapism.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews) 37 of 38 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Terrific series -- but a really really bad, really really short entry in it!,
By Michael K. Smith - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Band of Brothers: A Midshipeman Bolitho Novel (Hardcover)
This is the most recently published of the more than two dozen novels in the Richard Bolitho naval series, but by the internal chronology, it comes third. It's here that Midshipman Bolitho is examined for promotion to lieutenant, and also here that he loses his best friend, Martyn Dancer, in a very minor action against a smuggler's brig. The problem with this extremely brief "novel" (a mere 113 pages, not counting the glossary and the selection from the next book in the series) is that the narrative and plot line are both as thin as muslin. It's almost a sketch of what ought to have been a full-dress novel three times its length. I found myself stopping to go back and reread a couple pages, thinking I'd missed something. And I kept checking the printed page numbers, in the suspicion that two had been glued together. The lieutenant's exam, for instance, has only just begun, maybe two or three basic questions asked, when suddenly it's over and Bolitho is being congratulated on having passed! When it becomes apparent Richard and his small party are going to have to capture a lugger on the beach in order to interrupt the loading of smuggled cases of muskets -- at least, I think that's what they're attempting to accomplish, it's never really clear -- the narrative jumps from the beach, to a moment in their own boat, to a few minutes after they take the smuggler's boat. If this were a movie, it would be littered with scene cuts and pages ripped from the screenplay. The whole thing seems to be a ploy on the author's part to bring in some extra dough without having done anything to earn it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A good read,
By Dr J - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Band of Brothers: A Midshipeman Bolitho Novel (Hardcover)
This is the third (chronologically speaking), but number 27 or so written, of Alexander Kent's Richard Bolitho series. It's an easy read, can be knocked off in one evening, as it's only about 100 pages. Bolitho and his buddy go up for promotion to lieutenant and engage in a battle or two. This one is not quite as action packed as the earlier novels, but it answers some questions and ties up some loose ends that were skipped over when Kent wrote the series. I am not sure why he waited so many years to fill the gap. It's a necessary read for anyone who has read the other bolitho novels.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great read,
By bookwormser - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Band of Brothers (Paperback)
Alexander Kent is all one needs to know a true writer of the sea and adventure. Sometimes it was like reading Tolkiens books. I feel like I just watched a movie rather than read a book. And it is a part of the Bolitho series.
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