Jason Q Bohm: America's Marines, Gebunden

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Jason Bohm does it again in this follow-up to his award-winning book Washington's Marines: The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution, 1775-1777 (2023).

Most people know about George Washington's and the Continental Army's heroics on the land, but few understand or have ever learned of the crucial contribution of naval warfare to the final victory for American Independence. America's Marines: The War at Sea and the Penobscot Expedition in the American Revolution, 1775-1779 rights this shortfall by telling the rest of the story in this riveting account of how the Continental Navy and Marines battled for America's freedom on the seas, rivers, and foreign shores.

Bohm's compelling account expertly maneuvers between the tactical and strategic levels of war by describing the several challenges in raising and sustaining a fleet and the men to man it. His chronological telling of America's evolution in naval warfare goes well beyond popular history. Bohm provides deep context and shares the incredible stories of individual ship battles, small but crucial campaigns, the nation's first amphibious operations, spy missions, fleet battles, and much more.

America's Marines provides readers with a 360-degree view of life on America's first warships, often through use of the participants' own words and experiences of swashbuckling adventures and dangers at sea. Readers will experience the sights, sounds, smells, and emotions shared by Sailors and Marines as they confront long, grueling days at sea, the uncertainty of what lies just over the horizon, and the excitement and horrors of battle. It describes in detail how Marines manned their ships' guns and fighting tops, prevented mutinies at sea, captured enemy vessels, and landed on foreign shores to achieve small tactical but significant strategic victories.

Bohm carries readers on journeys along the eastern seaboard, into cold northern waters, south to warm West Indies seas, into the tumultuous North Atlantic and dangerous European waters, and to the still home waters of the Delaware, Mississippi, and Penobscot rivers, where America would face its greatest naval defeat until the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

America's Marines 's sweeping prose relies heavily on primary research and the author's own extensive military knowledge to tell this incredible story of trial and error, determination, and perseverance that shaped and informed much of what is found in America's military doctrine today. Enhanced with fifteen original maps and fifty illustrations, America's Marines is destined to take its rightful place as an important contribution to preserving America's history.