An Honorable War: The Spanish-American War Begins: 13 (Honor Series) - Softcover

Robert N. Macomber

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1561649732 ISBN 13: 9781561649730

Publisher: Pineapple Press, 2017

Synopsis

Silver Medal Florida Book Awards Popular Fiction13th in the Honor Series of Naval Historical Fiction following the career of Capt. Peter Wake

Politics, love, and war swirl around Captain Peter Wake (USN) in Havana when the USS Maine explodes on a quiet evening in February, 1898. Working with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt in the tense pre-war days, carrying out a perilous espionage mission inside Cuba, and leading a disastrous raid on the Cuban coast, Wake is in the middle of it all. This is the first of a dynamic trilogy set during the Spanish-American War in the Caribbean, when America changes forever into a global power.

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About the Author:

Robert N. Macomber is an internationally recognized, award-winning maritime writer, lecturer, and television commentator. He is the author of the acclaimed Honor Series of naval novels and is proud to have readers in ten countries. His awards include the Florida Genealogy Society's Outstanding Achievement Award for his nonfiction work on Florida's maritime history, the Patrick Smith Literary Award for Best Historical Novel of Florida (At the Edge of Honor), and the John Esten Cooke Literary Award for Best Work in Southern Fiction (Point of Honor). He is the guest author at regional and international book festivals and was named by Florida Monthly magazine as one of the 22 Most Intriguing Floridians of 2006. His sixth novel, A Different Kind of Honor, won the highest national honor in his genre: the American Library Association's 2008 W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction. Each year Macomber travels approximately 15,000 sea miles around the globe, giving lectures and researching his novels.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pineapple Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1561649732
• ISBN 13: 9781561649730
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 2