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The High Seas' Man of War
COCHRANE The Real Master and Commander By David Cordingly Bloomsbury. 420 pp. $32.50 Though far from humble about his creative talents, novelist Patrick O'Brian always stressed that the real-life Royal Navy exploits on which he based his 20-book Aubrey/Maturin saga far outstripped anything he cou...-
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