Books like The Hornblower Companion

Not quite as in-depth as I would have liked it to be, but it's still good to have! It's not a must-have, but every kind of fan will probably be able to get something out of reading it. The maps are quite useful for orientation if you ever got confused about the geography of Hornblower's exploits (as can happen. It never bothered me while reading the novels, but it's certainly fun to re-read some parts of the action with a map!)The personal notes provide mostly insight on the writing process, less on the actual content of the novels. But it's nontheless a fascinating set of essays that acquired, in retrospect, a bitter-sweet tone through the post scriptum in which Forester writes about the first ideas for Hornblower and the Crisis settling in his mind. A book that sadly remained unfished, due to his sickness and death that struck only a few months after the P.S. was written.