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  • Yarns of a Navy Daredevil
    Chuck Veit
    A reprint of the private printed 1946 edition of 'Yarns of a Navy Daredevil,' being the compiled articles written by Acting Paymaster John H. Stevenson during and after the Rebellion, describing his various exploits in that war and subsequent experiences in the Asiatic Squadron of the U.S. Navy. ...
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    17,58 €

  • Monitor’s Unknown Mission
    Chuck Veit
    Here is the unsung and all but forgotten story of a major failed mission of the American Civil War. Undertaken at the request of the President, the Navy dedicated a dozen gunboats (including the ironclads Monitor and Galena) and an untried secret weapon to the destruction of the railroad bridges connecting Petersburg with Richmond. Success would not attend their efforts, but th...
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    23,62 €

  • A Lively Little Battle
    Chuck Veit
    A Lively Little Battle presents new research and a new perspective on the Battle of Fort Butler at Donaldsonville, Louisiana on 28 June 1863--including the plan of the fort, a never before published eyewitness account, and numerous newspaper articles never before factored into the story. The books seeks to meld all of these sources into a cohesive tale that finally explains the...
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    23,22 €

  • The Paymaster
    Chuck Veit
    The story of the War of the Rebellion includes many heroic episodes, but, for every tale we thrill to read, there are many more that have never been told or are all but lost. Among these are the exploits of John H. Stevenson, Paymaster in the U.S. Navy. His one-man expeditions along the shores of the Rappahannock, Mississippi, and James rivers brought intelligence to Union forc...
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    23,36 €

  • Natural Genius
    Chuck Veit
    Based on copious documentation and eyewitness accounts, this is the long-awaited book on the U.S. Navy’s first submarine and its designer, Brutus de Villeroi, whose long career of accomplishments as a respected civil engineer was to be capped by his greatest creation, a working submersible for the navy of his adopted nation, with which it could sink the feared rebel ironclad, V...
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    23,32 €

  • Sea Miner
    Chuck Veit
    Sea Miner is the long-lost story of the U.S. Navy’s first torpedo development program of 1862-63. The weapon developed by soldier-scientist Major Edward B. Hunt was so advanced that nothing remotely similar would be seen for another eighty years; in fact, Sea Miner achieved results that we have yet to match even today. ...
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    23,45 €

  • Upon the Best Authority, Vol. I
    Chuck Veit
    This is the Civil War as Americans on the home front read about it: through the newspapers. No academic analysis long after the dust has settled, no interpretation from 150 years laterÐ-just the raw stories that defined and described American society in the turbulent years 1861-1865. It is a period not unlike our own . . . ...
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    43,53 €

  • Upon the Best Authority, Vol. II
    Chuck Veit
    This is the Civil War as Americans on the home front read about it: through the newspapers. No academic analysis long after the dust has settled, no interpretation from 150 years laterrÐ-just the raw stories that defined and described American society in the turbulent years 1861-1865. It is a period not unlike our own . . . ...
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    43,53 €

  • Upon the Best Authority, Vol. III
    Chuck Veit
    This is the Civil War as Americans on the home front read about it: through the newspapers. No academic analysis long after the dust has settled, no interpretation from 150 years laterrÐ-just the raw stories that defined and described American society in the turbulent years 1861-1865. It is a period not unlike our own . . . ...
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    43,48 €

  • Upon the Best Authority, Vol. IV
    Chuck Veit
    This is the Civil War as Americans on the home front read about it: through the newspapers. No academic analysis long after the dust has settled, no interpretation from 150 years laterrÐ-just the raw stories that defined and described American society in the turbulent years 1861-1865. It is a period not unlike our own . . . ...
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    43,56 €

  • The Yankee Expedition to Sebastopol
    Chuck Veit
    At the beginning of the epic siege of Sebastopol in 1854, Russian defenders blocked the entrance to the harbor by sinking several lines of older sailing ships at the mouth of the bay. One year later, as the Czar’s forces abandoned the town, the remainder of the Black Sea Fleet, along with a number of transports and merchant vessels, were also scuttled. All told, nearly a hundre...
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    23,24 €

  • A Dog Before a Soldier
    Chuck Veit
    A collection of 'almost lost' episodes from the U.S. Navy in the Civil War--most of which have lain hidden for 150 years. Navy spies, cattle raids, deep inland recons and shore assaults as well as a daunting battle on the far side of the planet--Civil War history you’ve never read before. Included in this new research is the story of Monitor’s Unknown Mission; the first all-bl...
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    23,50 €