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Author: Martin Caidin
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780671698140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInhabitants of the earth have learned to live in peaceful harmony, but a masterplan to conquer them is hatched by ruthless, depraved convicts and a band of human desperados--whose cruelty knows no bounds
Author: Paul Dowswell
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2012-09-27
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1408829355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSam fights in a fierce battle against the Danish Fleet, led by none other than Admiral Nelson himself, and against all odds victory is theirs. Peace is declared and Britain's war with most of Northern Europe is over. Sam can go home. But on the journey back, he witnesses a crime, for which he is framed. He is sentenced to death, but at the last minute this sentence is commuted to transportation to Australia. With petty thieves, vicious criminals, women and other children, Sam begins an eight month journey to the other side of the world, and a life of slavery in the harsh Australian interior. He knows that, against all odds, he must escape.
Author: Marty Rhodes Figley
Publisher: Graphic Universe ™
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1467750646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaptured at sea . . . a young man must choose between his country and his freedom. The Atlantic Ocean, 1781. James Forten is a free African American sailor on an American ship, the Royal Louis, during the Revolutionary War. After his ship is captured by the British, he becomes a prisoner on the Amphion. James worries that he will be sold as a slave. Will James ever see his home again?
Author: Robert P. Watson
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2017-08-15
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0306825538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most horrific struggle of the American Revolution occurred just 100 yards off New York, where more men died aboard a rotting prison ship than were lost to combat during the entirety of the war. Moored off the coast of Brooklyn until the end of the war, the derelict ship, the HMS Jersey, was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of disloyalty. Crammed below deck -- a shocking one thousand at a time -- without light or fresh air, the prisoners were scarcely fed food and water. Disease ran rampant and human waste fouled the air as prisoners suffered mightily at the hands of brutal British and Hessian guards. Throughout the colonies, the mere mention of the ship sparked fear and loathing of British troops. It also sparked a backlash of outrage as newspapers everywhere described the horrors onboard the ghostly ship. This shocking event, much like the better-known Boston Massacre before it, ended up rallying public support for the war. Revealing for the first time hundreds of accounts culled from old newspapers, diaries, and military reports, award-winning historian Robert P. Watson follows the lives and ordeals of the ship's few survivors to tell the astonishing story of the cursed ship that killed thousands of Americans and yet helped secure victory in the fight for independence.
Author: Thomas Dring
Publisher: Westholme Pub Llc
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781594161223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecollections of Life on the Prison Ship Jersey publishes for the first time the complete text of Thomas Dring’s handwritten manuscript, a major primary-source document, in which he describes the horrible conditions, treatment by guards, and experiences that he and others endured during captivity. The book is a plea not to forget but instead to remember the inhumanity of the captors and the sacrifices of the captives—a message that continues to resonate today. Editor David Swain has provided an introductory essay and extensive notes that contain background information and historical documentation to accompany and illuminate the original manuscript.
Author: Larry Lowenthal
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Far fewer people have heard of Wallabout Bay on the Brooklyn shore of the East River or know the terrible story of American sailors who were imprisoned there on wretched hulks like the Jersey. ... Hell on the East River uses the prisoners' own accounts to describe the agony of imprisonment, analyzes the number of deaths, examines the reasons for the tragedy, and describes the 100-year struggle to erect the present Prison Ship.
Author: Thomas Dring
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 1986-11
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 0918222923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe miseries endured by American seamen during the Revolutionary War are documented in Captain Dring's account of his experience as a prisoner on the Jersey off the coast of Long Island. Originally published in 1829.
Author: Louis Garneray
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1806 Lt. Louis Garneray's ship was en route to France when it was captured by the Royal Navy. Confined for nine years with hundreds of others in the cramped quarters of a prison ship off Portsmouth, he tells a compelling story in turns violent, poignant, dark, and humorous. Originally published in 1851 in French as Mes Pontons, the memoir is considered to be the most detailed account of shipboard prison life at that time. Translator Richard Rose presents the first full, unabridged English-language version of the classic and draws on extensive research to examine the veracity of the more fanciful elements of the narrative. As an added feature, the book is illustrated with paintings and etchings done by Garneray, who became a distinguished maritime artist later in life. This rare first-person expose; on a little-known facet of the age of sail is a valuable resource and makes fascinating reading.
Author: Esteban Maroto
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781684051595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShowcasing the beautiful black and white art of the renowned Spanish artist in this science-fiction space opera first published in the 1980s. Faye has been assigned what should be an easy mission, transporting a group of criminals in suspended animation, but after her ship is struck by a meteor and crashes, the plague-stricken prisoners escape and Faye must head out and capture them in this original graphic novel.
Author: Gregory F Michno
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1682470253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow available in paperback, Death on the Hellships chronicles the true dimensions of the Allied POW experience at sea. It is a disturbing story; many believe the Bataan Death March even pales by comparison. Survivors describe their ordeal in the Japanese hellships as the absolute worst experience of their captivity. Crammed by the thousands into the holds of the ships, moved from island to island and put to work, they endured all the horrors of the prison camps magnified tenfold. Gregory Michno draws on American, British, Australian, and Dutch POW accounts as well as Japanese convoy histories, declassified radio intelligence reports, and a wealth of archival sources to present a detailed picture of the horror.
