A Darker Sea: Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812. James L. Haley
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ISBN: 9780425282823 | 400 pages | 10 Mb
- A Darker Sea: Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812
- James L. Haley
- Page: 400
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9780425282823
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
English text book download A Darker Sea: Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812 (English literature) FB2 ePub by James L. Haley 9780425282823
Overview
A Darker Sea: Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812 by James L. Haley "[A] crackling nautical history series...electric."—Wall Street Journal The gripping naval saga featuring Commander Bliven Putnam, by award-winning historian James L. Haley continues, chronicling the build up to the biggest military conflict between the United States and Britain after the Revolution—the War of 1812. At the opening of the War of 1812, the British control the most powerful navy on earth, and Americans are again victims of piracy. Bliven Putnam, late of the Battle of Tripoli, is dispatched to Charleston to outfit and take command of a new 20-gun brig, the USS Tempest. Later, aboard the Constitution, he sails into the furious early fighting of the war. Prowling the South Atlantic in the Tempest, Bliven takes prizes and disrupts British merchant shipping, until he is overhauled, overmatched, and disastrously defeated by the frigate HMS Java. Its captain proves to be Lord Arthur Kington, whom Bliven had so disastrously met in Naples. On board he also finds his old friend Sam Bandy, one of the Java's pressed American seamen kidnapped into British service. Their whispered plans to foment a mutiny among the captives may see them hang, when the Constitution looms over the horizon for one of the most famous battles of the War of 1812 in a gripping, high-wire conclusion. With exquisite detail and guns-blazing action, A Darker Sea illuminates an unforgettable period in American history.
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