To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth Audiobook Libro.fm

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The enthralling story of the greatest Civil War battle at sea by the awardwinning and bestselling historians Phil Keith and Tom Clavin

On June 19 1864 just off the coast of France one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place On a clear day with windswept skies the dreaded Confederate raiderAlabama faced the Union warshipKearsarge in an allornothing fight to the finish the outcome of which would effectively end the threat of the Confederacy on the high seas

Authors Phil Keith and Tom Clavin introduce some of the crucial but historically overlooked players including John Winslow captain of the USSKearsarge as well as Raphael Semmes captain of the CSSAlabama Readers will sail aboard the Kearsarge as Winslow embarks for Europe with a set of simple orders from the secretary of the navy Travel to the uttermost ends of the earth if necessary to find and destroy the Alabama

Winslow pursued Semmes in a spectacular fourteenmonth chase over international waters culminating in what would become the climactic seabattle of the Civil War

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