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Title: Brown on Resolution by C. S. Forester ISBN: 0-370-00680-1 Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group) Pub. Date: 01 January, 1959 Format: Hardcover

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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Brown on Resolution is C. S. Forester's Best Book
Comment: While I saw the film version of this book during the 1950s, I only realized that the movie was derived from one of C. S. Forester's early works when I discovered a tattered paperback using the American edition title of "Singlehanded" on a remainder table. For $.25 I was able to read a masterpiece now almost forgotten, and all the more amazing because of how young Forester was when he wrote it -- 27.

The story of a brief affair yielding an illegitimate son seemed an odd tale for Forester at any age, but as with most of his other books the writing itself was so good that I held on for the first half of the book. It turned out that there was a relation between the naval officer father mostly in the nearly forgotten background and the destiny of the son, who joins the Royal Navy and serves as a common sailor. As World War I starts, his ship is destroyed in the Pacific Ocean by a German cruiser and he is one of three survivors picked up by the victors. The cruiser retires into a Galapagos haven for repairs, the young sailor escapes with a rifle, and manages to hold up repairs long enough for the Naval officer father's task force to catch the German, with the father and son never knowing of each other's existence.

This is one of the few true irony novels ever written, formed in the literary round, and possessed of truly superb craftsmanship at every level. Any serious reader should have a copy on their shelves.

Rating: 5
Summary: Read it Once and Remember it Vividly
Comment: I read it when I was about 16. Its images stuck with me for over a quarter century. It is a tale about doing duty, doing duty whatever the personal costs. It deals with a upbringing in Victorian England by a single mother of her son. She is determined she will make a career for himself in the Royal Navy. The son is the product of an affair with the German Naval Liaison Officer stationed in London before WWI.

She resolves to learn everything about the navy she can and raise her son to serve. And serve he does, until it takes him to a deserted Galapogas Island in WWI where he does deadly battle as a single man with a German Cruiser repairing in the waters after a naval action.

No happy endings, just haunting images that stay with you. For me this is one of CS Forester's best novels. Read it if you can find a rare old edition in the second-hand bookstore.

Rating: 4
Summary: Absolute Resolve
Comment: Forester's novel set in the first world war War is about the absolute resolve of a mother and her son. The mother that her son will become a naval hero, the son that he will do his duty. Duty over all. No matter what the concequences. Single handedly he contrives the destruction of a German cruiser. The novel is intense, the descriptions exacting. But no happy ending. Made into the 1953 movie "Sailor of the King" with a happier ending and a less detailed plot.