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Nelson sends Cockburn and his new command, together with his old cutter to help Captain Sir Sidney Smith thwart Bonaparte's invasion of Turkish ruled Syrian Palestine. The campaign is brutal...

In this second book in the action-packed Cockburn series, Welbeloved uses his experience to raise bands of Turkish irregulars to harry the French army and the two small warships and capture French supply vessels carrying cannon, muskets and powder that can be diverted to help the Turks defend Acre.

Customer reviews:

'This historical fiction based on the real experiences of Captain Cockburn is hard to put down. It is engaging as well as entertaining.'

This was a great series, really wonderful reading. The characters are developed well with lots os action. I've read dozens of these "Nelson era" British naval books and this is at the top of my "greatly enjoyed" list. Enjoy the read.

'Action and excitement is also present in abundance, a thoroughly enjoyable read. It is
indeed, as good as the first novel.'

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DELSEKU
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 13, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 666 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 347 pages
Reviewer: JOEH
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: easy and entertaining read
Review: I like to have an entertaining story to read when exercising on my stationery cycle. Something not too heavy, but still substantive. I operated Navy Destroyers in the areas of the Mediterranean described herein and sailed on the Academy team, crewing on a 100’ Schooner named Freedom. It was fun figuring out the tactics described. Has a feel good story too!

Reviewer: Rick L
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great adventure, nicely woven
Review: Woven neatly into history. Both books make a fun adventure. Only problem is with Welbeloved's accent. I live in the Southern United States, and would tend to read the accent as an attempt at Tennessee or Kentucky or even Texas in the 19th Century (Texas was settled by Tennesseans). The Tennessee or Texas 'drawl' he uses with the deep 'r' would never be heard in Canada or Maine. Today, their accents are still clipped, even non-rhotic in some parts of New England. Accent aside, he is a delightful character, and his wide experience would be typical of settlers of the day. --Rick

Reviewer: maclaugh
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: very good adventure Bonaparte moves on Syria, and needs to be stopped.
Review: A good read, plenty of good moments in the fighting age of sail.Characters continue to expand as they take on new challenges.From a siege at Arce , recapturing islands in the Adriatic, sailing off Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean… a good sailor book.

Reviewer: Bjarni
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A nice one
Review: The Cockburn series are really nice, Exciting with a lot of action. I have a passion for good books from this period. Enjoyed them quite a lot.

Reviewer: Tom Dean
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: duties to the east and west
Review: Started this series on a lark and I appreciate historical fiction of this period. These are good stories and if one has ever sailed in a sailboat ⛵️ one appreciates the amount of time it takes go any great distance and the physical condition one has to be in.

Reviewer: Roger A. Mccain
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Three Naval Novels
Review: Geoffrey Watson, A Small Bird of Prey and Nelson’s Fighting Cocks and Leighton Harding, When Duty CallsThis review covers the above three books and will be submitted for each of them.These are stories of Naval conflict in the period of war that followed the French Revolution, all placed in the period of Napoleon’s rise, before he became the ruler of France. As such, they are a bit predictable – but that is not a bad thing, since it promises that the reader will get a lot of the action sequences that an addict to this form (such as me) will enjoy. The writing is plain and straightforward, and as a result the narrative flows well and swiftly. All are rollicking stories with one adventure following quickly on another, and seem to me pretty sound in the naval technology and military history on which they are based.Watson’s characters, Cockburn and Wellbeloved, and their exploits strain the limits of plausibility a little too much for me. Cockburn (like most protagonists in stories of this kind, with the exception of Alan Lewrie) is a paragon among Naval officers with ideas that are very modern for his time, and Wellbeloved is something of a genius in Guerilla warfare. Watson, it seems, is a bit in love with his characters. I remember reading somewhere that it is the fate of a fictional naval hero always to be where the action is hottest, and that certainly is true of Cockburn and Wellbeloved. They are also very lucky – though, again, that is the fate of a naval adventure protagonist, since one stroke of bad luck could end the series. The stories are amusing, but require a great deal of suspension of disbelief.When Duty Calls begins with a preface that describes a historical record that is the basis of the story. The exploits described in the story are remarkable, but there were some remarkable exploits in the naval war of that time – such as those of Lord Cochrane. William Calvert, in these stories, would rank with Lord Cochrane. Like Cockburn, Calvert is enlightened for his time (but is wealthy enough to pay for his own enlightenment!) On the other hand, a hero with some basis in an actual biography cannot always be where the action is hottest, but may spend months in the dull routine of blockade duty, with the months dismissed in a few pages. And his luck may run out now and then. All in all, When Duty Calls takes its history a little more seriously, and I found it a better read for that.One other thing these books share, and share with many other ebooks from Amazon, is truly atrocious editing. Commas occur pretty much at random, with a cheerful disregard either for the conventions of grammar or the rhythms of human speech. Needed quotation marks often are omitted. The font shifts unpredictably from upright to italic, for no apparent reason. Uncorrected typos and eggcorn errors abound: officers “pour” over a chart but are not “phased” by threatening weather. Some may not be bothered, but to a person like me who sometimes has to grade student papers, they are a distraction and a detraction from the pleasure of the read. If my students turned in papers this bad, they would lose a letter grade for bad writing, even if the content of the paper is good – and my students are not writing stories intended to amuse! Since I have seen these problems in so many Amazon ebooks, I cannot blame them on the authors or the original publishers. It seems that Amazon is just doing a terrible job of producing ebooks. Probably the cost of hiring competent copy-editors would reduce their profit margin.

Reviewer: Anonymous
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book and great series.
Review: Enjoyed the book thoroughly. It’s great to have an adventure series with more than one ‘star’, particularly when it comes to the Napoleon era.Look forward to the next book.

Reviewer: Martha's Vineyard
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not O'Brian, but
Review: Not O'Brian by any means, nor Hornblower, but notably better than many of the other "Confusion to the French" novels. It was cheap and I thought worth it. The problem with most of these "wannabees" is that they never spend time on the daily life--the meal, the bird, the broken axle, the things that do infest one's everyday life and lend a necessary and enjoyable reality and texture to the narrative.

Reviewer: Fred
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Nelsons fighting Cocks. This is another very good book from this author and again, slightly more pronounced than his previous novel, there is a trickle of humour which definitely adds to the enjoyment for this reader. Action and excitement is also present in abundance, a thoroughly enjoyable read. It is indeed, as goodasthe first novel. At just over 60% the pace continues as does the enjoyment of reading this fine novel.Sadly, it would appear that Cockburn has been put ashore. As there does not appear to be a book 3!Fred

Reviewer: Peter Scott
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Nelson's Fighting Cocks by Geoffrey WatsonAnother interesting yarn about our heroes Cockburn and Wellbeloved, fighting the French and Spanish in the Mediterranean. Both at sea and on the land. Slow at times.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The American in this book continues to say "yew" instead of "you" throughout the book. It's enough to drive you insane after a few pages of it. What is the point? Both words are pronounced the same. I was going to buy the author's other large series about this guy but I see from several reviews of them the yank is still "yew"ing his way through them all. Another reader lost mr. Watson. Why did you do this??

Reviewer: bilmac
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Book purchased as part of series by this author. Fully matched expectations as an excellent fast-growing story of life in Nelson's navy. Characters well drawn and believable. As worthy successor to Hornblower and his ilk.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: excellent series