John Paul Jones

Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451603991
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Evan Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones’s Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Drawing on Jones’s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson—Thomas’s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones’s spirit was classically American.

Author : Joseph Callo
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9781591141044
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Joseph Callo and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History/Military/United States/ Colonial Period

Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557504104
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1959 Pulitzer Prize-winning book vividly portrays the illustrious career of John Paul Jones, from his early training at sea in the British West Indian merchant trade to his command in the newly independent American Navy and his eventual award of flag status.

Author : Keith Brandt
Publisher : Troll Communications
ISBN 13 : 9780893758509
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Paul Jones, Hero of the Seas written by Keith Brandt and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces and early life of the Scottish-born sea captain who, after killing a mutineer, sailed to America, where he became a hero of the Revolution and founded the United States Navy.

Author : John Henry Sherburne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Character of John Paul Jones, a Captain in the United States Navy written by John Henry Sherburne and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael L. Cooper
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780792255475
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hero of the High Seas written by Michael L. Cooper and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated by period artwork and photographs of historical artifacts, a biography of John Paul Jones describes how the Scots immigrant served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolution and led his men to victory over the world's greatest sea power.

Author : Mame Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everybody Works But John Paul Jones written by Mame Warren and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Gilkerson
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ships of John Paul Jones written by William Gilkerson and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim McGrath
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451416112
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Give Me a Fast Ship written by Tim McGrath and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE • “A meticulous, adrenaline-filled account of the earliest days of the Continental Navy.”—New York Times bestselling author Laurence Bergreen America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution—or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England’s King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping. Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and waterways until John Adams of Massachusetts proposed a bold solution: The Continental Congress should raise a navy. The idea was mad. The Royal Navy was the mightiest floating arsenal in history, with a seemingly endless supply of vessels. More than a hundred of these were massive “ships of the line,” bristling with up to a hundred high-powered cannon that could level a city. The British were confident that His Majesty’s warships would quickly bring the rebellious colonials to their knees. They were wrong. Beginning with five converted merchantmen, America’s sailors became formidable warriors, matching their wits, skills, and courage against the best of the British fleet. Victories off American shores gave the patriots hope—victories led by captains such as John Barry, the fiery Irish-born giant; fearless Nicholas Biddle, who stared down an armed mutineer; and James Nicholson, the underachiever who finally redeemed himself with an inspiring display of coolness and bravery. Meanwhile, along the British coastline, daring raids by handsome, cocksure John Paul Jones and the “Dunkirk Pirate,” Gustavus Conyngham—who was captured and sentenced to hang but tunneled under his cell and escaped to fight again—sent fear throughout England. The adventures of these men and others on both sides of the struggle rival anything from Horatio Hornblower or Lucky Jack Aubrey. In the end, these rebel sailors, from the quarterdeck to the forecastle, contributed greatly to American independence. Meticulously researched and masterfully told, Give Me a Fast Ship is a rousing, epic tale of war on the high seas—and the definitive history of the American Navy during the Revolutionary War.

Author : Jean Boudriot
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard written by Jean Boudriot and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: