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Author : John Flanagan
Release : 2015-07
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 503/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Grey Raider, The by : John Flanagan
Download or read book Grey Raider, The written by John Flanagan. This book was released on 2015-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From international bestseller John Flanagan comes an explosive cat-and-mouse chase and high-stakes adventure across the high seas, set against the backdrop of the American Civil War.
Author : John Flanagan
Release : 2015-07-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 511/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Grey Raider by : John Flanagan
Download or read book The Grey Raider written by John Flanagan. This book was released on 2015-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From international bestseller John Flanagan comes an explosive cat-and-mouse chase and high-stakes adventure across the high seas, set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. It is October 1863, and the American Civil War is in full swing. The Union has a preponderance of men, munitions and manufacturing and the pendulum is swinging its way. But the Confederates have a powerful bargaining point in any peace negotiations: the CSS Manassas, commanded by the audacious Captain Pelle. The Manassas is a commerce raider, searching the seas far and wide for the Union’s merchant fleet. And when it finds the enemy, it sends the ships and their million-dollar cargoes straight to the ocean floor. As the ships go down, insurance rates go sky high, and Abraham Lincoln is under extreme pressure to stop the Manassas dead. But with the Union Navy stretched to breaking point blockading the South’s ports, only one ship can be spared to seek out the Confederate raider. Enter Captain Samuel Stacy and the USS Oswego. Stacy is tenacious and bull-headed and, perhaps more importantly, has a long-standing feud with Pelle. There is nothing he wants more than to send the ‘grey raider’ to a watery grave. After all, the outcome of the war may depend on it ...
Author : Tom Chaffin
Release : 2007-04-15
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 006/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sea of Gray by : Tom Chaffin
Download or read book Sea of Gray written by Tom Chaffin. This book was released on 2007-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembled from hundreds of original documents, including intimate shipboard journals kept by Shenandoah officers, Sea of Gray is a masterful narrative of men at sea The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge was ended off the shores of Madeira, where the ship was outfitted for war. The newly christened CSS Shenandoah then commenced the last, most quixotic sea story of the Civil War: the 58,000-mile, around-the-world cruise of the Confederacy's second most successful commerce raider. Before its voyage was over, thirty-two Union merchant and whaling ships and their cargoes would be destroyed. But it was only after ship and crew embarked on the last leg of their journey that the excursion took its most fearful turn. Four months after the Civil War was over, the Shenandoah's Captain Waddell finally learned he was, and had been, fighting without cause or state. In the eyes of the world, he had gone from being an enemy combatant to being a pirate—a hangable offense. Now fearing capture and mutiny, with supplies quickly dwindling, Waddell elected to camouflage the ship, circumnavigate the globe, and attempt to surrender on English soil. "A superb account of how the Confederate raider Shenandoah brought the American Civil War to the farthest reaches of the world." -- Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Mayflower and Sea of Glory
Author : Zane Grey
Release : 2022-08-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Raiders of Spanish Peaks by : Zane Grey
Download or read book Raiders of Spanish Peaks written by Zane Grey. This book was released on 2022-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Raiders of Spanish Peaks" by Zane Grey. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Stephen R Gray
Release : 2013-05-11
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 76X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rampant Raider by : Stephen R Gray
Download or read book Rampant Raider written by Stephen R Gray. This book was released on 2013-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of Light Attack Squadron 212 s "Rampant Raiders," A-4 pilot Stephen R. Gray writes about his experiences flying combat sorties from the deck of an aircraft carrier during one of the most intense periods of aerial combat in U.S. history. From the perspective of a junior naval aviator, Gray reveals the lessons he learned first at the Naval Aviation Training Command and then in actual combat flying the Skyhawk from USS Bon Homme Richard in Vietnam. Training strengthens commitment, Gray points out, allowing ordinary men like him to fly dangerous missions. Readers will discover how circumstances created heroe--heroes who managed to overcome their personal fears for a greater cause--and how, despite the lack of public support for the war, the men remained committed to one another. The book addresses how men react to service during contentious political times to offer lessons relevant today.
