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The shores of Tripoli : Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates /

It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States of North Africa, especially...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haley, James L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2016]
Subjects:
United States. > Navy > Officers > Fiction.
United States. > Navy.
Tripolitan War (United States : 1801-1805)
United States > History, Naval > 19th century > Fiction.
Battleships > Fiction.
United States > History > Tripolitan War, 1801-1805 > Fiction.
Pirates > Africa, North > Fiction.
Armed Forces > Officers.
Battleships.
Pirates.
Africa, North.
United States.
1800 - 1899
Action and adventure fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
Sea fiction.
Fiction.
History.
Naval history.

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