Author: G. Clifton Wisler
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: blockade
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2000-09-30
List price: $15.89
ISBN-10: 0060292083
ISBN-13: 9780060292089
Fourteen-year-old Henry Severn is ship’s boy and lookout on the Banshee. This new British ship is designed to carry good through the line of Yankee ships blocking trade between the Confederate states and Britain during the Civil War. On their many runs through the blockade, Henry and the rest of the crew risk discovery and destruction by the U.S. Navy. Everyone is counting on Henry to spot the enemy ships. Will Henry’s keen eyes save the Banshee from capture? Young readers will enjoy experiencing the high-seas adventure of ruining the blockade, as popular author and noted Civil W
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: blockade
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 0554349515
ISBN-13: 9780554349510
The writer begs to remind his readers again that he has not felt called upon to invest his story with the dignity of history or in all cases to mingle fiction with actual historic occurrences.
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Wildside Pre
Keywords: runners, blockade
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2005-08-17
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1592242464
ISBN-13: 9781592242467
Jules Verne once more gives a sympathetic treatment to the Americans in this tale set during the English blockade of American ports. Originally published in 1871 as Les Forceurs de Blocus. Translated from the French by Mrs. Arthur Bell.
Author: Thomas E. Taylor
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: blockade, running
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 0559266316
ISBN-13: 9780559266317
Author: Albert Edmond Hoga
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: blockade, pacific
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2009-01-28
List price: $21.75
ISBN-10: 110312689X
ISBN-13: 9781103126897
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author: Harry Castlemon
Publisher: Echo Library
Keywords: runner, blockade, marcy
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $14.90
ISBN-10: 1406882119
ISBN-13: 9781406882117
Harry Castlemon was a nom de plume for American writer Charles Austin Fosdick. He wrote primarily juvenile fiction for boys, basing many of his adventure stories on his experiences during the American Civil War.
Author: Albert Pleysier
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: leningrad, battle, blockade, tears, frozen
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2008-10-07
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0761841261
ISBN-13: 9780761841265
In Frozen Tears, Albert Pleysier has taken the contents of diaries, letters, essays, and interviews written or given by persons who lived in Leningrad during the siege and placed them in their historical setting. The result is a very personal history of the siege of Leningrad.
