Flying Colours (novel)

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Flying Colours

First edition
Author	C. S. Forester
Language	English
Series	Horatio Hornblower
Genre	Historical novel
Publisher	Michael Joseph, London
Publication date	1938
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Hardcover & paperback
Pages	190 pp
Preceded by	A Ship of the Line (1938)
Followed by	The 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..