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Cargando... The Shores of Tripoli: Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates Bliven Putnam Book 1por James L. Haley
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. For lovers of historical fiction, this volume fills a giant void. Our schools teach almost nothing about the US Navy and its adventures in the Mediterranean circa 1800. Follow a young man from Connecticut as he battles pirates, trains his men in the operation of the ship's gunnery, and is initiated into the grown-up world of love. We read of sea battles in the great sailing ships, intrigue and politics in the dealings of the government officials, and the relationships that are formed by men in battle. I highly recommend this read and I thank the author and the Penguin First to Read program for a complimentary copy. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States of North Africa, especially Tripoli, claimed their faith gave them the right to pillage anyone who did not submit to their religion. Young Bliven Putnam, great-nephew of Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam, is bound for the Mediterranean and a desperate battle with the pirate ship Tripoli. He later returns under legendary Commodore Edward Preble on the Constitution, and marches across the Libyan desert with General Eaton to assault Derna--discovering the lessons he learns about war, and life, are not what he expected. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Returning to sea, he manages to be in most of the conflicts that his country faces in the Mediterranean so his promotion is rapid. Not a particularly believable career for the young man but sufficiently interested to read the next episode. ( )