Название: John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy
Автор: Evan Thomas
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0743258045
Год: 2004
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 400
Размер: 12,8 МБ
Язык: Английский
John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way."