Critical Reaction
Many reviewers, such as the New York Times, praised Ramage as "A grand tale written with panache, glitter and awesome authority, one can only rejoice that a crying need has been filled".
'A splendid battlescape, a running adventure ashore...a good story' Evening Standard 2
In response to the novel, Orville Prescott wrote that "Dudley Pope has kept his story scudding along before a fine wind," and "Therewith predict that Lieut. Nicholas Ramage, commander of His Majesty's cutter Kathleen, will enjoy a highly successful career and survive some of the most perilous adventures experienced by any British naval officer in the entire history of the Napoleonic Wars."
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