With this book, the publisher opens a series of historical and adventure novels about the captain of the English navy, Sir Horatio Hornblower, under the general title "The Saga of Captain Hornblower" by S. S. Forester. Cecil Scott Forester (English Cecil Scott Forester, pseudonym; real name English Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith, 1899-1966) - English writer, military historian and Hollywood screenwriter. The book includes the first two novels, "Midshipman Hornblower" and "Lieutenant Hornblower."