Under Enemy Colors

My #6 favorite read of 2013 A superb 5 Stars A riotous high seas adventure filled with mutiny, inept leaders, cannons, court marshals and one entertaining half French, half English hero. Many times during the reading of this book I stopped and said to myself "this is a superb!" I wasn't kidding mys......more

Is Under Enemy Colors predictable? Yes! Does the protagonist bear significant resemblance to Ramage, Bolitho, Hornblower, Aubrey, and every other hero with a series of adventures in the Age of Fighting Sail? Yes! However, I prefer the writing style to that of O'Brian and place it right up there with......more

Sean Thomas Russell was born in Toronto, Canada and now resides on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Mr. Russell successfully has joined the ranks of writers of naval fiction. He joins many of my favorite writers in this genre such as C.S. Forester, Alexander Kent and Dudley Pope. His first nove......more

I am not a voracious consumer of naval fiction, I will admit that immediately. I know the basic facts of ships, like the location of the bow, stern, bilge...etc. Yeah, so this went just a bit over my head at parts. Luckily, I am not quite so bad with the time period and the ranks in the British navy......more

Ambientato durante le guerre napoleoniche di fine '700, narra la storia di un ufficiale della Marina reale britannica. Bella e coinvolgente avventura sui mari, molto ben scritto anche se eccede, a mio parere, nell'uso di termini tecnici o in gergo marinaresco, assolutamente sconosciuti ai più.......more