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THE COMMODORES. The Drama of a Navy Under Sail. |
Author: GUTTRIDGE, Leonard F. & SMITH, Jay D:
Description: Peter Davies 1970 1970 Publishers original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, toning to edges of cover, chipping to top of spine, now protected in Brodart. Map endpapers, no inscriptions. 340pp including index, plus 16pp b/w photographs, pages clean and bright in firm binding. This book traces the history of the US Navy from 1775 to the 1860's. The detailed accounts of the Commodores themselves, men like Truxton, Parker, Bainbridge, the Barrons and Stephen Decatur are a highly important element of the book. And here for the first time is the full story of the Chesapeake affair, the American frigate that surrendered in 1807 to H.M.S. Leopard off the American coast, in circumstances reminiscent of the Pueblo incident of 1968.
Book Number: 0005986
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Price: $35.00 (AUD) |
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