Rifleman Dodd and The Gun: Two Novels of the Peninsular Wars

This is not a print-on-demand or facsimile copy but the hardcover book with a copyright of 1942 and published by The Press of the The Readers Club, New York. The author, Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (1899 -1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester and the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. and Death to the French (published in the United States as Rifleman Dodd) and The Gun (filmed as The Pride and the Passion in 1957).