![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Jones s spirit was classically American." ![]() Evan Thomas s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones s "Bonhomme Richard" and the British man-of-war "Serapis" off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel.ĭrawing on Jones s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson Thomas s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Ruthless, indomitable, clever he vowed to sail, as he put it, in harm s way. Forester s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. He was to history what Patrick O Brian s Jack Aubrey and C.S. ![]() John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. ![]() The "New York Times" bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. ![]()
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