Flying Colours (novel)

Flying Colours
First edition
AuthorC. S. Forester
LanguageEnglish
SeriesHoratio Hornblower
GenreHistorical novel
PublisherMichael Joseph, London
Publication date
1938
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typeHardcover & paperback
Pages190 pp
Preceded byA Ship of the Line
(1938) 
Followed byThe Commodore
(1945) 

Flying Colours is a Horatio Hornblower novel by C. S. Forester, originally published 1938 as the third in the series, but now eighth by internal chronology. It describes the adventures of Hornblower and his companions escaping from imprisonment in Napoleonic France and returning to England. It is one of three Hornblower novels adapted into the 1951 British-American film Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N..