by Richard Zacks
Chock full of early american history. Story follows William Eaton, who was trying to pull off some clandestine action in Tripoli on the behalf o the US president. What did I learn? US Marines were a new order and not highly paid or thought of at that time. Most naval officers were teenagers while th...
An ambitious U.S. general/diplomat turns guerilla warlord and takes a troop of the newly-minted U.S. Marines with Arab mercenaries into North Africa to wage a private war with the local tribal rulers in an effort to rescue captured American sailors in a very Lawrence of Arabia way. The U.S. governme...
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