The Midshipman Prince (Sir Sidney Smith)

The Midshipman Prince (Sir Sidney Smith Series)

Literature & Fiction

Grundner, Tom

Genre Fiction

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HMS Diamond

"It's a book that just makes you feel good."    The Oldest Living Member is known only by that name.  He is never described and little is known of his background.  Nevertheless, across these 10 stories he sits on the terrace of the Marvis Bay Golf and Country Club offering sage advice about life, love and golf to one and all often whether you want it or not.  More importantly, he tells some of the most hilarious golf stories that have ever been written.  These are tales of golf as it was before pros became multi-national corporations, and weekend amateurs couldn't live without $400 titanium drivers.  There is an elegance to the writing and an innocence to the stories that makes them curiously addictive. You simply cannot read one without wanting to read the next and the next.  It's great if you are an aspiring golf champion and you decide to marry a girl who already IS a champion.  But, you probably should ask "in what sport" before you marry her.  It was a grudge match.  Play one hole sudden death  for the hand of a fair maiden.  The only problem is that the hole is 16 miles long.  Ramsden Water's idea of talking to a girl was to perspire and gurgle incoherent sounds.  On the golf course, however, he had the force and confidence of a caveman.  Who knew that a caveman was just what the prettiest girl in town was looking for?  A Fireship Press CONTEMPORIZED CLASSIC TM

The Oldest Living Member Tells All: Lessons on Life, Love and Golf (A Fireship Press CONTEMPORIZED CLASSIC)

P.G.Wodehouse

<p>The Ramage Companion Finally!! The Book that RAMAGE Fans Have Long Awaited! Between 1965 and 1989 the British author, Dudley Pope, wrote the 18-volume "Ramage" series of nautical fiction novels. With its publication Mr. Pope joined C.S. Forester, and Patrick O'Brian as one of the giants of the nautical fiction genre. While companion books have been written for the Forester and O'Brian series, no one has yet written a ... Full description</p>

The Ramage Companion

History

Europe

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The Long Roll (A Fireship CONTEMPORIZED CLASSIC)

JOHNSTON, MARY

Literary

"Mary Johnston's THE LONG ROLL and CEASE FIRING are quite possibly the best Civil War novels ever written..." Cease Firing picks up where Mary Johnston s previous book, The Long Roll leaves off. We rejoin Richard Cleave, the Confederate artillery officer, as he experiences the battles of Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania; and whose journey finally ends at Appomattox. Cleave can sense that the war is being lost; and he is torn between that knowledge and his sense of duty and honor. Through it all, Johnston s attention to historical detail never falters as we are realistically propelled into Cleave s fascinating world. Prominently featured also is Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston, from whom Mary Johnston is descended.

Cease Firing

Who was the greatest British admiral of the Napoleonic Era? Horatio Nelson? Perhaps. But a very strong case could be made that it was Sir Sidney Smith. His exploits were every bit as daring as those of Nelson, and in some ways he accomplished even more. But Nelson got the good press and Smith did not, and does not even today. In 1793, during the retreat from Toulon, Smith destroyed more French ships than had been destroyed in any British fleet action prior to that. Yet, he was blamed by Nelson and Collingwood (neither of whom were there) for not destroying more. The first person to defeat Napoleon on land head-to-head was not Wellington; it was Smith at the Battle of Acre. Everyone knows about Nelson at Trafalgar; but few people realize that there would have been no Trafalgar if Smith had not stopped Napoleon in the Mideast. In 1839, Edward Howard, a writing colleague of Frederick Marryat, wrote the first of two seminal biographies of Sir Sidney Smith. It was the only one seen and approved by Smith prior to his death. This valuable source document is reprinted here in it s entirety.

The Memoirs of Sir Sidney Smith

Biographies & Memoirs

Howard, Edward

Historical

<p>The Story of America's Finest ShipAs Told by Three of Her Finest HistoriansOn October 21st 1797, the 44-gun frigate Constitution slid down the ramp at Hartt's shipyard and into the chilly waters of Boston Harbor. While the workmen were proud of their efforts, no one'but NO one'thought she would still be serving her country 210 years later.Yet the Constitution remains afloat, having survived three wars, service on numerous distant stations, duty as a receiving ship, extended periods of neglect and decay, and occasional brushes with the breaker's yard. She has survived all those tribulations to become the oldest commissioned ship still afloat in the world, and a symbol of the heritage and pride our country.Her story is told in a series of 34 short essays by three of the country's leading experts on the USS Constitution's history: Charles E. Brodine, Jr., Michael J. Crawford and Christine F. Hughes of the Naval Historical Center in Washington, DC. Originally published as: Old Ironsides: An Illustrated Guide to USS Constitution, it is brought to a much wider audience in this Fireship Press edition</p>

Ironsides!: The Ship, the Men and the Wars of the USS Constitution

Charles E. Brodine Jr.

Michael J. Crawford

Christine F. Hughes

Americas

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The Refugees: A Tale of the Huguenot Persecution

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