Schooler Lynn - The Last Shot - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Last Shot
Author(s): Schooler Lynn
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060523343
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/27/2006