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Lives Of Distinguished American Naval Officers (Volume Ii)

Lives Of Distinguished American Naval Officers (Volume Ii)

Fenimore Cooper, James

Paperback

Historical FiguresArmed ForcesCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 9354505104
ISBN13: 9789354505102
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 22 2021
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
America learned the sea the hard way. In these pages, James Fenimore Cooper turns battle reports and reputations into living portraits of command at the edge of the young nation. Salt spray, courage, and duty. Volume II continues his series of naval officer biographies, drawing you into the anxieties of blockade, the discipline of the quarterdeck, and the hard choices that shaped the early US Navy. More than historical naval nonfiction, this maritime biography collection maps the values and tensions of the early republic era: honour and ambition, innovation and tradition, private loss set against public necessity. Cooper, himself steeped in maritime experience and writing in 19th century America, helps explain why these United States naval heroes mattered, and how naval warfare history influenced politics, trade, and national identity. Readers come for vivid lives; they leave with a reliable naval history reference that still rewards navy history students, armchair strategists, and anyone building a naval academy reading list. As a companion to Volume I, it also belongs on the shelf as part of a complete volume set of classic naval lives. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. For casual readers it is gripping narrative history; for classic-literature collectors it is Cooper in a rarer, documentary mode, essential to understanding the literature and record of the American sea service, in war and peace.

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