Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship
John Baldwin; Ron Powers
ISBN 10: 0307236552 ISBN 13: 9780307236555
Verlag: Crown, 2007
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Describes the Civil War role of the Confederate warship Shenandoah, a state-of-the-art raiding vessel assigned to sink ships from the U.S. merchant fleet, which prowled international waters destroying dozens of Union ships, until, in August 1865, the crew discovered that the war had been over for months and they were being hunted as pirates. 100,000 first printing.
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John Baldwin, a relative of Conway Whittle, is a magazine writer, lecturer, and the author of two novels. At seventeen, Baldwin was apprenticed to the ship’s carpenter on a merchant vessel sailing the ports of Africa.
Ron Powers, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is the author or coauthor of twelve previous books, among them the number one bestseller Flags of Our Fathers and the acclaimed biography Mark Twain, a finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Titel: Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last...
Verlag: Crown
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
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