At age 17, Horatio Hornblower embarks upon the career which will eventually carry him into a dozen major campaigns during the Napoleonic wars.

With rations running dangerously low, Captain Hornblower fears that the lure of the South Sea islands may entice the crew to mutiny. June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner. He also is ordered to find a water route across the Central American isthmus, and...

"The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the...