The Last Shot

Informationen zum Autor Lynn Schooler, author of The Blue Bear, has lived in Alaska for more than thirty years. He is a two-time winner of Alaska magazine's grand prize for wildlife photography and winner of the National Wildlife grand prize. Klappentext Blending high-seas adventure and first-rate research, The Last Shot is naval history of the very first order, offering a riveting account of the last Southern military force to lay down its arms in June 1865. Following orders received the previous autumn, the Confederate raider Shenandoah fell upon a fleet of whalers out of New England working the waters near Alaska's Little Diomede Island. More than two dozen ships went down in a frenzy of destruction that occurred three months after the South's official surrender. In breathtaking detail, author Lynn Schooler re-creates one of the most astonishing events in American military history—a final act of war that brought about the near-demise of the New England whaling industry and effectively ended America's growing hegemony over worldwide shipping for the next eighty years. Zusammenfassung Blending high-seas adventure and first-rate research! The Last Shot is naval history of the very first order! offering a riveting account of the last Southern military force to lay down its arms in June 1865. Following orders received the previous autumn! the Confederate raider Shenandoah fell upon a fleet of whalers out of New England working the waters near Alaska's Little Diomede Island. More than two dozen ships went down in a frenzy of destruction that occurred three months after the South's official surrender. In breathtaking detail! author Lynn Schooler re-creates one of the most astonishing events in American military history—a final act of war that brought about the near-demise of the New England whaling industry and effectively ended America's growing hegemony over worldwide shipping for the next eighty years. ...

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Schooler, Schooler Lynn
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.06.2006
• EAN: 9780060523343
• ISBN: 978-0-06-052334-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Second World War, Local History, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), General and world history, History of the Americas, Civil wars, HISTORY: United States / 19th Century, HISTORY: United States / 21st Century, HISTORY: United States / 20th Century, HISTORY: Military / United States, HISTORY: AMERICAN, HISTORY: Military / Naval, HISTORY: United States / State & Local / General, HISTORY: Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, History / American