The Story of the Coast Guard: 1790 to 1939 - Tapa blanda

Brown, Riley Shepard

 
9798888190753: The Story of the Coast Guard: 1790 to 1939
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ISBN 13: 9798888190753
Editorial: Sunbury Press, Inc., 2023

Sinopsis

Riley Shepard Brown has recounted the history of the United States Coast Guard, from its inception in 1790 until the outset of World War I. 

  1. From the Revenue Marine to the Coast Guard
  2. Iron Men, Wooden Ships
  3. The Coast Guard in the Great War
  4. The Morro Castle Disaster
  5. SOS!
  6. The Sea Is a Killer
  7. Death Goes to Sea
  8. Wings and Men
  9. Guardians of the Sea Lanes
  10. Dots and Dashes
  11. Floods and Hurricanes
  12. The Coast Guard and the Future


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Acerca del autor

Riley Shepard Brown (1911-1992) was a longtime resident of New Jersey and well-known columnist in the Moorestown Sunday Courier Post. Brown grew up in Cordele, Georgia, and wrote often of his Southern heritage, and had a keen interest in the Civil War. He played football at the University of Georgia and minor league baseball in the South and Southwest. After service in the Coast Guard during World War II, he made a living writing detective stories. Even after joining N. W. Ayer and Son, where he was an advertising writer and executive for 20 years, he continued to write magazine articles and television and movie screenplays. He was working on two novels when he passed.Brown's favorite work was his biography of a Confederate officer, Stringfellow of the Fourth, published in 1960. He also wrote a history of the US Coast Guard.

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Editorial
Sunbury Press, Inc.
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 13 
9798888190753
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
174
Contacto del fabricante
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