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9%OFFJamie Malanowski - Commander Will Cushing - Daredevil Hero of the Civil War - 9780393351859 - V9780393351859
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Commander Will Cushing - Daredevil Hero of the Civil War

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Description for Commander Will Cushing - Daredevil Hero of the Civil War Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HB. Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 666.
October 1864. The confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle had sunk two federal warships and damaged seven others, taking control of the Roanoke River and threatening the Union blockade. Twenty-one-year-old navy lieutenant William Barker Cushing hatched a daring plan: to attack the fearsome warship with a few dozen men in two small wooden boats. What followed, the close-range torpedoing of the Albemarle and Cushing’s harrowing two-day escape downriver from vengeful Rebel posses, is one of the most dramatic individual exploits in American military history.

Theodore Roosevelt said that Cushing “comes next to Farragut on the hero roll of American naval history,” but ... Read more

A thrilling narrative biography, steeped in the tactics, weaponry, and battle techniques of the Union Navy, Commander Will Cushing brings to life a compelling yet flawed figure. Along with his three brothers, including one who fell at Gettysburg, Cushing served with bravery and heroism. But he was irascible and complicated—a loveable rogue, prideful and impulsive, who nonetheless possessed a genius for combat.

In telling Cushing’s story, Malanowski paints a vivid, memorable portrait of the army officials, engineers, and politicians scrambling to win the war. But he also goes deeper into the psychology of the daredevil soldier—and what this heroic and tragic figure, who died before his time, can tell us about the ways we remember the glories of war.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393351859
SKU
V9780393351859
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Jamie Malanowski
Jamie Malanowski has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times. Author of And the War Came, about America’s six-month-long descent into war after Lincoln’s election, he lives in Briarcliff Manor, New York.

Reviews for Commander Will Cushing - Daredevil Hero of the Civil War
"Jamie Malanowski has brought to life one of the great, little-known swashbucklers of the Civil War. A fun, exhilarating rush of a read, this is history told with the flair and panache of a great journalist."
Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea "It’s astonishing to me that I’d never heard of such an astonishing and ... Read more

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