George Washington’s Secret Navy - a new book by James Nelson

October 18, 2008 · Filed Under New Books 


James Nelson’s new history, George Washington’s Secret Navy , looks at a fascinating period in American history when George Washington, largely without authority to do so, commissioned his own privateers to sail against the British. We will be posting a review soon. In the meantime from Amazon:

Mr. Nelson has taken an episode that occupies no more than a few paragraphs in other histories of the Revolution and, with convincing research and vivid narrative style, turned it into an important, marvelously readable book.”
–Thomas Fleming, author of The Perils of Peace: America’s Struggle to Survive after Yorktown

“A gripping and fascinating book about the daring and heroic mariners who helped George Washington change the course of history and create a nation. Nelson wonderfully brings to life a largely forgotten but critically important piece of America’s past.”
–Eric Jay Dolin, author of Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America

“The political machinations are as exciting as the blood-stirring ship actions in this meticulously researched story of the shadowy beginnings of American might on the seas.”
–John Druett, author of Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

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2 Responses to “George Washington’s Secret Navy - a new book by James Nelson”

  1. Jim Nelson on October 21st, 2008 10:18 pm

    I read this book and I thought it was brilliant! I laughed, I cried, I wanted to make it a part of me. Rush out and buy it. Buy two, three, you’ll want them all!

    (Oh, and the similarity between my name and that of the author is purely coincidental. As far as you know)

  2. admin on October 22nd, 2008 7:35 am

    LOL. Who is that man behind the beard? Welcome Jim (whoever you might be.)

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