- Ship captains, Ship captains in fiction, Officers, Fiction
When a British ship captain is killed in a naval battle of the Napoleonic War, Lieutenant Ramage is assigned the task of rescuing a British sympathizer, a beautiful Italian Marchesa.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Dudley Pope
- First published
- 1965
- Pages
- 319
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Lippincott, House of Stratus
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781842324721
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