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    A Darker Sea: Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812
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    A Darker Sea: Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812
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    A Darker Sea: Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812

    Written by James L. Haley

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

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    The second installment of the gripping naval saga by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring Commander Bliven Putnam, chronicling the build up to the biggest military conflict between the United States and Britain after the Revolution—the War of 1812.

    At the opening of the War of 1812, the British control the most powerful navy on earth, and Americans are again victims of piracy. Bliven Putnam, late of the Battle of Tripoli, is dispatched to Charleston to outfit and take command of a new 20-gun brig, the USS Tempest. Later, aboard the Constitution, he sails into the furious early fighting of the war.

    Prowling the South Atlantic in the Tempest, Bliven takes prizes and disrupts British merchant shipping, until he is overhauled, overmatched, and disastrously defeated by the frigate HMS Java. Its captain proves to be Lord Arthur Kington, whom Bliven had so disastrously met in Naples. On board he also finds his old friend Sam Bandy, one of the Java's pressed American seamen kidnapped into British service. Their whispered plans to foment a mutiny among the captives may see them hang, when the Constitution looms over the horizon for one of the most famous battles of the War of 1812 in a gripping, high-wire conclusion. With exquisite detail and guns-blazing action, A Darker Sea illuminates an unforgettable period in American history.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 14, 2017
    ISBN9781524702151
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    A Darker Sea: Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812
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    James L. Haley

    JAMES L. HALEY is a critically acclaimed historian and biographer. His books have been praised by Publishers Weekly who called Passionate Nation: An Epic History of Texas "Outstanding." USA Today called his book Wolf: The Lives of Jack London "fascinating," and The Wall Street Journal said that Haley "surpasses Irving Stone."

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      Still a farmer at heart, Bliven Putnam does his duty and goes back to sea in a small sloop. Fretting over the impressment of his friend Sam challenges his concentration for his naval career. He does manage to be present when Old Ironsides becomes the nickname for the frigate USS Constitution as well as during both of her victories over British warships. A good insightful story about events little known to those who read about naval history during the Age of Sail.