Publish Date |
May 10, 2004 |
Category |
History / United States / Revolutionary Period History / Military / Naval |
Price |
$18.99 |
ISBN: 9780743258043
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: May 10, 2004
Nathaniel Philbrick The New York Times Book Review A penetrating biography...an adventure story....Part George Patton, part Jesse James, Jones was, as it turns out, a perfect American hero.The Washington Post Every sentence is written with grace and style....Thomas opens a window on the squalid, demeaning, and hazardous milieu of eighteenth-century mariners and provides unsurpassed descriptions of naval battles.Chicago Sun-Times His stirring accounts of Jones's sea battles will delight those who loved Patrick O'Brian's novels about Capt. Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's tales of Horatio Hornblower.