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Val Biro

Illustrator

(1921 - 2014)

Val Biro

Balint Stephen Biro was a children’s author, artist and illustrator. Originally a native of Hungary, his studio was located in England.



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Horatio Hornblower (1952)

In the first of these two novels Hornblower leads a fleet into the Baltic in support of the Russians while in the second he returns to France and is caught up in the fighting during the Hundred Days of Napoleon’s return.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Val Biro

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Hornblower and the Atropos (1953)

Hornblower and the Atropos is a 1953 historical novel by C. S. Forester.

Horatio Hornblower is posted to HMS Atropos, the smallest vessel in the Royal Navy that merits command by a post-captain, as he salvages treasure from the Mediterranean Sea.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Val Biro

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Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)

Hornblower ships as fifth lieutenant in HMS Renown with a mad captain on a mission to harry Spanish possession in the Caribbean. Was he pushed or did he fall?

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Val Biro

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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)

The future admiral begins his career in the Justinian and is seasick off Spithead.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Val Biro

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Mystery at Witchend (2008)

The first adventure of the Lone Pine Club, a British war time mystery with spies and sabateurs, adapted for radio from the novel by Malcolm Saville.

Author(s): Malcolm Saville
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s): Val Biro

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