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| For My Country's Freedom |  | Author: Alexander Kent
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
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Rating:  3 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0099502291
EAN: 9780099502296
Publication Date: January 4, 2007
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After two and a half months of precious peace in Cornwall with his beloved mistress Catherine, Admiral Richard Bolitho is once again summoned to London. In defence of an Empire, the Admiralty must quell the unrest in America - or face the war with those who were once friends. For when diplomacy fails, the cannon will speak.
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 for my country's freedom July 1, 2010
R. Bini (UK)
Sadly, having followed Richard Bolitho's progression this far, I have had enough. Alexander Kent still writes with authority about naval matters, but his increasing efforts to develop an on-shore dimension to his world fall well short, his continuous repetitions of phrases and adjectives give a writing-by-numbers general air of creative exhaustion. The Mill&Boonish descriptions of Richard and Lady Catherine's sex life are ever more embarrassing and so out of character with earlier writing that they invite the suspicion that another hand is at work here.
It was good while it lasted, but now it is not so much "Good Bye Sir Richard" but "That's enough, Dick!"
 Superb Read March 19, 2009
R. E. Pollard (Germany)
Although i am biased,Found this book a excellent read and as enjoyable as all the others in the collection
Fading Glory? January 29, 2001
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
After the scene setting nature of the previous two volumes I was looking forward to a meatier story. To some extent we do get it but increasingly the tale is for the reader that has covered all the previous books. The emotions of and interplay between those left behind in England whilst Bolitho heads westward is disappointingly unconvincing. Kent's decision in earlier episodes to only paint shallow, black and white characters for the secondary figures comes home to haunt him here. As a result their actions fail to ring true. Having said that there is something relentless about the narrative and whilst the ultimate battle scenes are rather short they are certainly well up to Kent's high standards of description. Personally I'm hooked on Bolitho's simple view of life and will read on regardless. I just wish there could be a bit more substance to the lesser players in the saga.
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